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- Path: sparky!uunet!auspex-gw!guy
- From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
- Newsgroups: comp.client-server
- Subject: Re: Sun RPC time-out question
- Message-ID: <16020@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
- Date: 19 Dec 92 19:13:49 GMT
- References: <8411@charon.cwi.nl> <lj6j9hINN6mk@appserv.Eng.Sun.COM>
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- >You can
- >reduce the probability of this happening a lot by doing a svc_udpenablecache()
- >(svc_dgenablecache() in TIRPC) on the server side. This sets up a server side
- >cache which throws away duplicate requests.
-
- Presumably it detects duplicates by checking the XID (transaction ID)
- field of the request.
-
- (For those who are curious, "dg" in the TIRPC version presumably stands
- for "datagram"; TI, you see, stands for "transport-independent", so UDP
- isn't the only datagram transport - I think it's been run atop the ISO
- connectionless transport protocol as well, for example.)
-