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From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Cc: Chuck Lever <cel@citi.umich.edu>,  <nfs@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: Re: PATCH - RPC/TCP 2 of 4 - Allow  SO_REUSEADDR for NFS sockets
Date: 14 Aug 2002 03:17:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <shsvg6ensro.fsf@charged.uio.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15704.41158.32143.348415@notabene.cse.unsw.edu.au>

>>>>> " " == Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> writes:

    >> it's been suggested that the client should also try reusing the
    >> port number when reconnecting over TCP... any thoughts on that?

     > Why?  You would not be able to reconnect until the TCP timeout
     > on connection re-use has passed, and by that time any benefit
     > that you might gain is probably lost.  How does the TCP timeout
     > compare with the replay-cache timeout??

The connection may break for other reasons (network partition for
instance). Reusing the port number guarantees that the replay cache
works as expected.

Cheers,
  Trond


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      parent reply	other threads:[~2002-08-14  1:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-08-13  2:57 PATCH - RPC/TCP 2 of 4 - Allow SO_REUSEADDR for NFS sockets Neil Brown
2002-08-13  3:23 ` Chuck Lever
2002-08-13  6:01   ` Neil Brown
2002-08-14  1:04     ` Julian Cowley
2002-08-14  1:17     ` Trond Myklebust [this message]

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