On Feb 22, 2009, at Feb 22, 2009, 2:09 PM, Trond Myklebust wrote:
I really dislike this idea of adding routing information at the sunrpc
level.
Well I think we have had problems in the past where RPC replies on
multi-homed systems go to the wrong interface and are dropped. Isn't
that why we now have the source address field in rpc_create_args? I
suspect we might have similar problems with NSM, for instance.
It is also the case that rpcbind v3 and v4 allow an RPC service to
register a bind address that is not ANYADDR. That's what universal
addresses are for.
So by itself I don't find this feature request terribly objectionable,
and I think it's worth some discussion.
So, I repeat: what is the application for all this? I've heard
mutterings about routing and multi-homed servers, but absolutely
zero in
the way of specific applications and requirements.
I concur that we should get more information about what is at issue.
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Chuck Lever
chuck[dot]lever[at]oracle[dot]com
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