Harald Barth wrote:
>
> > Has anybody tried using the AFS client on computers that have IP
> > addresses in RFC 1918 private spaces and are only connected to the
> > public Internet through NAT or a similar scheme?
>
> I don't think your NAT box will be able to determine where to deliver
> callbacks from your server on the public side to your client on the
> private side. In spite of it appearing to work (especially reads) in
> the beginning, you will probably loose in the long run and you will
> miss file updates.
>
> I don't think that it is possible to design a NAT scheme that will
> be transparet for the AFS protocol.
>
> Harald.
>
> PS: In its nature, NAT is as dark as the night [swedish natt] and
> should never have been invented.
I think you will have issues with NAT if you're using more than one box
behind the firewall. If you're using a single box, then you'll probably
be ok - you'll need to associate UDP ports 7000-7003 with that
particular client.
Dig back through the info-afs archives. I'm pretty certain I remember a
discussion about this several months back. (And no, I don't remember
where they are.)
-- Nathan
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