Bug#409531: nbd-server: timeout option not very useful

2008-10-10 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
over the last year on several occasions, i've seen folks spend a couple of hours debugging this option and coming to the same results ... it times out weather it's being used or not. the -a timeout option is just plain broken. would it be possible to either disable this option entirely, or at the

Bug#409531: nbd-server: timeout option not very useful

2007-05-28 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
According to https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=819235&group_id=13229&atid=113229 > and the tcp(7) manual page, the nbd server should disconnect the connection after 2 hours 11 minutes if the client fail to respond to tcp keepalive requests. The keepalive feature was imple

Bug#409531: nbd-server: timeout option not very useful

2007-05-27 Thread Ronny Aasen
the workaround is just to have the machine running an nbd-client make nbd accesses periodically just to keep the connection alive... but that's kind of ugly. I have tried this. basicaly i ran nbd-server using -a 600 so it would timeout after 10 minutes The nbd-client connects and working, sit

Bug#409531: nbd-server: timeout option not very useful

2007-02-04 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 08:45:15PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 11:54:49AM -0800, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > > when using nbd-server with the "-a timeout" option, it will often > > disconnect running nbd-client instances that have merely been inactive > > for a while. it

Bug#409531: nbd-server: timeout option not very useful

2007-02-04 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 11:54:49AM -0800, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > Package: nbd-server > Version: 1:2.8.7-3 > Severity: normal > > when using nbd-server with the "-a timeout" option, it will often > disconnect running nbd-client instances that have merely been inactive > for a while. it would be

Bug#409531: nbd-server: timeout option not very useful

2007-02-03 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
Package: nbd-server Version: 1:2.8.7-3 Severity: normal when using nbd-server with the "-a timeout" option, it will often disconnect running nbd-client instances that have merely been inactive for a while. it would be much, much more useful if it implemented some sort of "ping" to determine if the