[668] in Info-AFS_Redistribution
Re: AIX 3.1.5 upgrade 2007
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Basch)
Mon Mar 23 09:34:48 1992
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 92 08:38:05 -0500
To: Mack@rus.uni-stuttgart.de (Dieter Mack)
Cc: danglert@source.asset.com, info-afs@transarc.com
In-Reply-To: Dieter Mack's message of Mon, 23 Mar 92 10:09:01 +0100,
From: "Richard Basch" <basch@MIT.EDU>
We have the same problem, and I have also reported it to Transarc (in
fact the same Prod Support Rep). I have found that the situation
improves slightly if you modify rx/rx_user.c to retry the bind() call a
few times (I try again for up to 1 minute at 10 sec. intervals). It
seems that when the socket is in TIME_WAIT, you may occassionally fail
on the bind() call.
This behavior has also been observed on other fast CPUs, such as the
DECstation, but much less frequently. The RISC/6000 is the most prone
to failure.
From what we can tell, this has nothing to do with the AIX version (it
failed for us ever since 3.1.1).
-Richard
