On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, Mike Waychison wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Jim Carter wrote: > > On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, Ian Kent wrote: > > > >>On Mon, 11 Oct 2004, Jeff Moyer wrote: > >> > >>> Server proximity takes priority in the selection process. > >> > >>Mike, can we define "proximity" and "same network segment" as used in the > >>Solaris automounter please (if that's possible). > > > > > > The desired behavior (and I think this is what our Sun boxes actually do) > > is that if the client has an interface such that (clientIP & netmask) == > > (serverIP & netmask) (using the client's same netmask for both), then that > > server is preferred because the traffic goes direct, not through a router. > > The client might have multiple interfaces. > > > > I believe this is the right interpretation of the 'weight override' bit > that Jeff posted from the Solaris automount(1m) manpage. > > However, I believe that algorithm uses some sort of traceroute/rpcping > to figure out distances and weights are used to prioritize given equal > distances. I'll ask around to see what the actual method used is. (a > tcpdump of this may prove useful ;)
OK. The traceroute idea is good but we have had people with port blocking so this would have to be quite smart. Ian _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
