RE: heads up - NetApp, NFSv4, and UDP

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From: Adam Ruprecht (ajr@thorin.dementia.org)
Date: 11/25/02-07:24:47 PM Z 

Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 20:24:47 -0500 (EST)
From: Adam Ruprecht <ajr@thorin.dementia.org>
Subject: RE: heads up - NetApp, NFSv4, and UDP 
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21L.0211251949290.43445-100000@thorin.dementia.org>

On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Noveck, Dave wrote:

> In particular, if you use the same rpc that comes with v3,
> you are going to be re-issuing requests on TCP connections,
> under cirsumstances in which the v4 spec (section 3.1.1) says
> you MUST NOT do so:
> 
>    When processing a request received over a reliable transport such as
>    TCP, the NFS version 4 server MUST NOT silently drop the request,
>    except if the transport connection has been broken.

RFC2203 lays out a couple of cases having to do with sequence
numbers where incoming requests must be silently discarded.  Must the
server break the connection if this happens?

	Thanks,
	Adam

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