On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 12:42:55PM -0500, Jeff Layton wrote: > On Mon, 06 Dec 2010 11:01:12 -0600 > "Christopher R. Hertel" <crh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > Question (for which I do not have an answer): How much work do you want to > > do to make their intentionally broken model work? > > > > Very little...live by the sword, die by the sword :) > > I'm not opposed to trying to work around this sort of brokenness, but > not at the expense of more conventional configurations. > > If the proxy keeps responding to echoes regardless of what happens on > the server side of its connection then that sounds really broken to me. > Does it do nothing to detect whether the server is still around? I don't > see a way for us to detect such a broken device if not. There's simply nothing you can do. If a WAN device fakes application level probes (which is what SMBecho is) then you're toast. Just ignore WAN devices. They're supposed to be transparent. Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
