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From: Michael Blandford <mlblandf@sedona.ch.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] rpc_ping and looong timeouts
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 11:29:19 -0700
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Cc: autofs@linux.kernel.org, Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>

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?

Michael

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