[OpenAFS] Re: UDP timeouts

2011-05-05 Thread Andrew Deason
On Thu, 05 May 2011 16:40:25 +0200 Jaap Winius wrote: > Nevertheless, 10-15 minutes is still 20-30x the default value. As an > alternative solution, could setting something like... > > fs checkservers -interval 10 > > ... on the clients be just as effective? Or, even if it is, would that

Re: [OpenAFS] UDP timeouts

2011-05-05 Thread Jeffrey Altman
On 5/5/2011 10:40 AM, Jaap Winius wrote: > Quoting Jeffrey Altman : > >> 10 to 15 minutes is more than sufficient. > > Ah, that makes me feel much better! > > Nevertheless, 10-15 minutes is still 20-30x the default value. As an > alternative solution, could setting something like... > >fs c

Re: [OpenAFS] UDP timeouts

2011-05-05 Thread Jaap Winius
Quoting Jeffrey Altman : 10 to 15 minutes is more than sufficient. Ah, that makes me feel much better! Nevertheless, 10-15 minutes is still 20-30x the default value. As an alternative solution, could setting something like... fs checkservers -interval 10 ... on the clients be just as

Re: [OpenAFS] UDP timeouts

2011-05-05 Thread Jaap Winius
Quoting Stanisław Kamiński : Could you share how did you find that they are dropped? Mostly I's see lines like the following in the syslog of the host running the firewall: Apr 30 16:33:16 noord kernel: [181949.998779] DROP IN=br1 OUT= PHYSIN=eth1 MAC=00:16:0a:24:d5:3d:00:25:2e:64:1a:8f:

Re: [OpenAFS] UDP timeouts

2011-05-05 Thread Jeffrey Altman
On 5/5/2011 8:42 AM, Jaap Winius wrote: > But I'm worried now that 28800 is probably overdoing it. 10 to 15 minutes is more than sufficient. Jeffrey Altman signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [OpenAFS] UDP timeouts

2011-05-05 Thread Stanisław Kamiński
On 2011-05-05 14:42, Jaap Winius wrote: Hi folks, At my site all of the the OpenAFS servers are separated from the clients by stateful iptables firewalls that include NAT. The first OpenAFS clients had been running for less than week when I figured that the AFS packets being dropped by the firew

[OpenAFS] UDP timeouts

2011-05-05 Thread Jaap Winius
Hi folks, At my site all of the the OpenAFS servers are separated from the clients by stateful iptables firewalls that include NAT. The first OpenAFS clients had been running for less than week when I figured that the AFS packets being dropped by the firewall (mostly SPT=7000 DPT=7001) mi