==> Regarding Re: [autofs] [RFC] rpc_ping and looong timeouts; Michael Blandford 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> adds:

mlblandf> Jeff Moyer wrote:
>> This patch simply implements an icmp ping (code shamelessly stolen from
>> clumanager), and does this before even attempting to do the rpc pings.
>> If the icmp ping works, then we continue as usual.  This takes care of
>> the host down case quite nicely:
>> 
>> 
>> 

mlblandf> Would this patch cause problems for those of us who have icmp
mlblandf> blocked?  If so, could we make it a run time option to
mlblandf> enable/disable?

Wow, you block icmp internally?  This would incur a timeout for every host
listed in your replicated server entry, and with Ian's patch, it would
incur a timeout for non-replicated servers, as well.  In fact, for the
non-replicated server case, I think it would give a false negative, failing
the mount even though the server is up.

Is this really how you have things configured?  NFS clients can't ping
their servers?

-Jeff

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