On Thu, 03 Oct 2013 14:04:55 -0700 Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > One of our users is reporting that the CIFS failover case is not working > properly. They have a cluster of CIFS servers that migrate an IPv6 addr > to the active system. > > Evidently, our client-side CIFS connection follows the first migration, > but fails to go back to the original on a second failover. > > It could be any number of things, but I wanted first to see if anyone > knows how long client-side CIFS will keep attempting to regain contact with it's > server? Forever? > Yep, forever. The address to connect to is determined by the mount helper and passed down to the kernel at mount time. This is the same for IPv4 and IPv6. If the address is floating between servers then it'll just look like the server rebooted when you fail over, and the client should just keep trying to reconnect indefinitely. -- Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> -- 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
