From: mehta kiran <kiranmehta1981@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: query about clnt_create
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 00:39:48 -0800 (PST)
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I noticed that clnt_create takes 3.5 min for tcp
and 1 min for udp protocol by default
(when taget system in UNREACHABLE). Anyway to modify
default timeout ? I could see that there are
functions like clnt_create_timed on  solaris 5.8/5.9
but not on linux.

thanks,
 kiran

--- Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
wrote:

> On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 03:58 -0800, mehta kiran
> wrote:
> > Hi Trond,
> >=20
> > May be i am confused.
> > But, is this  assumption ok :
> > that clnt_create/clnt_call call  from a client
> system
> > will not fail due to any kind of security
> > settings(kerberos,firewall) on the nfs server
> > ( PS: client system can mount exported fs from
> > nfs server) ?
>=20
> Of course clnt_call can fail due to security
> settings on the server:
> they wouldn't be much use for security purposes if
> they didn't stop an
> actual RPC call. :-)
>=20
> clnt_create might succeed, though, since it doesn't
> actually try to talk
> to the server.
>=20
> Cheers,
>   Trond
>=20
>=20


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