[PATCH] Plugin Interface Change

Simo Sorce simo at redhat.com
Thu Sep 15 18:10:14 EDT 2011


On Thu, 2011-09-15 at 12:31 -0400, Greg Hudson wrote:

> * We will need an enhancement to the lookaside cache (replay.c) to
> support requests in progress.  A request should be added with no
> response as soon as it is received, and then its entry should be
> augmented to contain the response after we have one.  If a request
> arrives which has a lookaside cache entry with no response, we should
> drop the request (we'll respond to it later).  Without this enhancement,
> KDCs will start processing retransmitted requests, which is a
> regression.

Should you drop them always or only over UDP ? I suspect that if you
have a TCP connection you should reply to it ? Or should you drop the
TCP connection and force the client to reconnect ?
Or did I completely misunderstand the issue here ?


Simo.

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