On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Andrew Deason <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 09 May 2011 11:42:24 -0400 > Jeffrey Altman <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Most NATs assign the requested port on a first come first serve basis. >> >> Firewalls that only open ports in response to outgoing traffic will >> also require this functionality. > > That is true; nevermind what I said earlier. > > It would be nice to have something (fileserver-side) for 1.4 that > addresses this, but I'm still worried that increasing the number of > clients probed is too much of a change for 1.4. Or am I worrying over > nothing?
if it ends up causing unanticipated delays due to a lock being held too long, it would be bad, so no, i don't think you're worrying unduly. > The patch for this is simple, though. Jaap, if you want to run with > smaller timeouts, we can get you a fileserver patch that should make > them workable. (I'm assuming this is a 1.4 fileserver?) Certainly if someone wants to start testing, it may be palatable with some operational experience behind it. -- Derrick _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
