Re: Anyone seen this UDP source port 7001 traffic?

[Tina Bird <tbird () precision-guesswork com>]

On 27 Apr 2003, Michael Lau wrote:

> [OpenAFS] AFS-Client behind masquerading firewall
> ... All output from the client cache manager exits via UDP port 7001, and
> all responses
> to the cache manager (including callbacks) return via UDP port 7001. ...
> https://lists.openafs.org/pipermail/openafs-info/ 2001-
> January/000173.html - 5k - Cached - Similar pages

beats me what it's got to do with Microsoft Messenger.  AFS is a
distributed file system designed to provide NFS-like file serving with the
added benefits of extended security -- access control lists that are much
more granular than the UNIX default permissions, the ability to integrated
with kerberos, etc.  there's a good generic intro at

http://grand.central.org/twiki/bin/view/AFSLore/GeneralFAQ

cheers -- tbird

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