healthy installation on os x does not connect at some locations

Harald Barth haba at pdc.kth.se
Thu Sep 28 15:41:02 CEST 2006


> I've seen a case where a Solaris host with local IP filters reject
> fragmented UDP packets, even though the fragmented UDP packet was
> destined to a non-filtered port. This caused the client (which was vos
> from OpenAFS, but I suppose it might apply to any RX-based software) to
> have abysmal performance, but it still worked. Something to look out for
> after the ports have been opened (if the above mentioned problem is
> really caused by a firewall).

The PDC servers should only permit 1 fragment/packet (= not fragmented
at all) which should force the client to do the same (by the mechanism
in the rx transport protocol)

(If I remember correctly how I patched the servers)

Harald.


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