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Date:      Fri, 14 Oct 2005 19:40:25 +0200
From:      Nicolas KOWALSKI <Nicolas.Kowalski@imag.fr>
To:        freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD NFS server not responding to TCP SYN packets from Linux/SunOS clients
Message-ID:  <vqopsq89euu.fsf@corbeau.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <434FD761.3050506@centtech.com>
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.64.0510141021290.22064@corbeau.imag.fr> <20051014160128.hev160v52ossokg0@wwws.cs.ait.ac.th> <20051014045824.V5343@odysseus.silby.com> <vqou0fkw92s.fsf@obiou.imag.fr> <434FD761.3050506@centtech.com>

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Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> writes:

> Nicolas KOWALSKI wrote:
>> Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com> writes:
>>
>>>Actually, there may be a quick fix for this specific machine.  If
>>>you set net.inet.tcp.keepidle to 1 minute (60*whatever kern.hz is),
>>>that'll cause keepalive packets to be sent every minute to an idle
>>>connection, rather than every 2 hours.  That would kill the stuck
>>>connections much quicker.

>> Unfortunately, this does not work as expected. I just tested with
>> my workstation (Linux 2.6), with NFS filesystems mounted with TCP;
>> when the station rebooted abruptely, mounting the same NFS
>> filesystems hung more than 1 minute (15 minutes just now). During
>> this hang, I saw on the server, using netstat, the nfsd process
>> related to my workstation in ESTABLISHED state.
>
>
> Man fixmount?

This is a FreeBSD-only command apparently. I did not find it on Linux
or Solaris. It could have been useful, by calling it before NFS
filesystems are mounted on clients, yes.

Thanks anyway,
-- 
Nicolas



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