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List:       opensolaris-networking-discuss
Subject:    [networking-discuss] Re: [laptop-discuss] Re:
From:       sommerfeld () sun ! com (Bill Sommerfeld)
Date:       2006-02-24 9:42:01
Message-ID: 1140802485.2504.57.camel () localhost
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On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 12:11 -0600, Nicolas Williams wrote:
> This is hard to address in the path of the hang -- the functions that
> are hanging are hanging because that's the only thing they're expected
> to do in these situations, and changing this behaviour isn't likely to
> be feasible.
> 
> The best thing to do in the short-term, IMO, on a GUI console login is
> to pop-up a little ballon saying something to the effect that "you've
> lost your network, things will hang, click here for some options."

I wonder if we could get some mileage out of declaring certain
TCP/RPC/... operations as "expendable", and failfast those on a link
failure, while keeping others you care about (e.g.,
ssh/imap/ftp/telnet/vpn/nfs etc.,) alive.

						- Bill

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