XPost: comp.arch.embedded, comp.os.linux.networking   
   From: keinanen@sci.fi   
      
   On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:16:23 +0000 (UTC), glen herrmannsfeldt   
    wrote:   
      
   >In comp.protocols.tcp-ip Paul Keinanen  wrote:   
   >(snip)   
   >   
   >> Neither does the TCP re-establish connection from the client to the   
   >> server if the server is rebooted, powered up, hardware replaced,   
   >> switch to a redundant unit (and if symbolic addressing is used, change   
   >> of IP address).   
   >   
   >UDP will do some of those.  The UDP implementation of NFS is   
   >pretty good at surviving server reboots and continuing on as   
   >if nothing changed.   I believe the TCP implementations automatically   
   >reconnect, transparent to the user.   
   >   
   >> You still need to build an additional layer to handle these events and   
   >> re-establishing connections for non-attended 24/7 operation.   
   >   
   >-- glen   
      
   If the TCP implementation of NFS will perform the reconnection, then   
   that is the feature of the NFS, not the TCP.   
      
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