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From: Volker Lendecke <Volker.Lendecke-PS7XAnAlDA+VvDNblw4Uiw@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: cifs client timeouts and hard/soft mounts
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 05:34:54 +0100
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Hi!

On Sun, Dec 05, 2010 at 08:16:46PM -0600, Steve French wrote:
> I am more worried about firewall rule changes and similar events
> than about broken servers - but the idea of waiting forever on stat
> to a server that is never going to respond seems odd.

That would be a strange fw rule that allows SMBEcho but not
other SMB requests. I think if someone puts up such a silly
rule, some pain is deserved :-)

Volker