On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 08:56:34AM +0800, Ian Kent wrote: > On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Michael Blandford wrote: > > > 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: > > > > > > > > > > > > > Would this patch cause problems for those of us who have icmp blocked? > > If so, could we make it a run time option to enable/disable? > > > > So you have ICMP blocked but allow NFS?
Its possible that some sites will have killed ping and pong because of various viruses in the past, but allow everything else. -Peter -- The 5 year plan: In five years we'll make up another plan. Or just re-use this one. _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
