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From: "Peter C. Norton" <spacey@lenin.net>
To: autofs@linux.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] rpc_ping and looong timeouts
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 20:17:07 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040608031707.GE11008@lenin.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0406080855390.17060@wombat.indigo.net.au>

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.

  reply	other threads:[~2004-06-08  3:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-03 20:30 [RFC] rpc_ping and looong timeouts Jeff Moyer
2004-06-04  1:17 ` Ian Kent
2004-06-04 19:06   ` Jeff Moyer
2004-06-04 21:41     ` Jeff Moyer
2004-06-05  2:08       ` raven
2004-06-06  2:18         ` Jeff Moyer
2004-06-05  5:36       ` raven
2004-06-06  3:00         ` Jeff Moyer
2004-06-06  3:13           ` raven
2004-06-06  3:57             ` Jeff Moyer
2004-06-07 18:29       ` Michael Blandford
2004-06-07 18:44         ` Jeff Moyer
2004-06-08 16:09           ` Michael Blandford
2004-06-08 16:15             ` raven
2004-06-08 16:26               ` Jeff Moyer
2004-06-08 16:36                 ` raven
2004-06-08 17:25                   ` Jeff Moyer
2004-06-08 17:51                     ` Michael Blandford
2004-06-09  1:13                     ` Ian Kent
2004-06-09  2:22                       ` Jeff Moyer
2004-06-09  2:54                         ` Ian Kent
2004-06-08  0:56         ` Ian Kent
2004-06-08  3:17           ` Peter C. Norton [this message]
2004-06-05  1:58     ` raven

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