On 12/29/05, Todd Kover <kovert AT omniscient DOT com> wrote:
>
>  > > Just because it's almost newyear, and I have seen The Light... (or
>  > > was that just an illusion?)
>  > >
>  > > Some thoughts about the new proposed features, concerning:
>  > >
>  > > - multiplexing the data streams, error stream, index stream, over
>  > > one TCP connection (this would make passing firewalls and NAT so
>  > > much easier and safer)
>  >
>  > Yes. Multiplexing the data streams/error stream/index stream over one
>  > connection is a good idea.  Kevin Till has done some investigation in
>  > this area. I hope he will comment on this.
>
> The Kerberos 5 implementation in 2.5.0 actually does all this over one
> tcp connection right now.

Is it possible to make the multiplexing change over one TCP connection
work without Kerberos 5?

>
> There is a minor protocol issue that needs to be corrected (that causes
> amandad to timeout at the end, rather than properly end a session, but
> it's also there under udp-based connections today, so less of a big
> deal).

Can you provide more information about this problem? Do you get "connection
reset by peer" error from amrecover after the files have been extracted?

Thanks,
Paddy

>
> -Todd
>


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