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Add new man pages for livesys and voldump. Fix the man page for sys to say what it actually does, rather than implying that it works like livesys, and to recommend livesys instead. Fix a path error in the NetInfo documentation. Update the README for the current status, including listing all installed commands that don't have man pages. (There may still be some subcommands that don't have man pages but aren't listed.)
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=head1 NAME
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NetInfo - Defines machine interfaces to register with AFS servers
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=head1 DESCRIPTION
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There are two F<NetInfo> files, one for an AFS client and one for an AFS
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File Server or database server. The AFS client F<NetInfo> file specifies
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the IP addresses that the client should register with the File Servers it
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connects to. The server F<NetInfo> file specifies what interfaces should
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be registered with AFS Database Servers or used to talk to other database
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servers.
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=head2 Client NetInfo
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The client F<NetInfo> file lists the IP addresses of one or more of the
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local machine's network interfaces. If it exists in the F</usr/vice/etc>
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directory when the Cache Manager initializes, the Cache Manager uses its
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contents as the basis for a list of local interfaces. Otherwise, the Cache
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Manager uses the list of interfaces configured with the operating
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system. It then removes from the list any addresses that appear in the
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F</usr/vice/etc/NetRestrict> file, if it exists. The Cache Manager records
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the resulting list in kernel memory. The first time it establishes a
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connection to a File Server, it registers the list with the File Server.
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The File Server uses the addresses when it initiates a remote procedure
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call (RPC) to the Cache Manager (as opposed to responding to an RPC sent
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by the Cache Manager). There are two common circumstances in which the
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File Server initiates RPCs: when it breaks callbacks and when it pings the
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client machine to verify that the Cache Manager is still accessible.
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The F<NetInfo> file is in ASCII format. One of the machine's IP addresses
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appears on each line, in dotted decimal format. The File Server initially
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uses the address that appears first in the list. The order of the
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remaining addresses is not significant: if an RPC to the first interface
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fails, the File Server simultaneously sends RPCs to all of the other
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interfaces in the list. Whichever interface replies first is the one to
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which the File Server then sends pings and RPCs to break callbacks.
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To prohibit the Cache Manager absolutely from using one or more addresses,
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list them in the F<NetRestrict> file. To display the addresses the Cache
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Manager is currently registering with File Servers, use the B<fs
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getclientaddrs> command. To replace the current list of interfaces with a
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new one between reboots of the client machine, use the B<fs
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setclientaddrs> command.
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=head2 Server NetInfo
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The server F<NetInfo> file, if present in the F</usr/afs/local> directory,
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defines the following:
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=over 4
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=item *
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On a file server machine, the local interfaces that the File Server
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(B<fileserver> process) can register in the Volume Location Database
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(VLDB) at initialization time.
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=item *
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On a database server machine, the local interfaces that the Ubik database
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synchronization library uses when communicating with the database server
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processes running on other database server machines.
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=back
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If the F<NetInfo> file exists when the File Server initializes, the File
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Server uses its contents as the basis for a list of interfaces to register
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in the VLDB. Otherwise, it uses the list of network interfaces configured
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with the operating system. It then removes from the list any addresses
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that appear in the F</usr/afs/local/NetRestrict> file, if it exists. The
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File Server records the resulting list in the F</usr/afs/local/sysid> file
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and registers the interfaces in the VLDB. The database server processes
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use a similar procedure when initializing, to determine which interfaces
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to use for communication with the peer processes on other database
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machines in the cell.
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The F<NetInfo> file is in ASCII format. One of the machine's IP addresses
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appears on each line, in dotted decimal format. The order of the addresses
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is not significant.
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To display the File Server interface addresses registered in the VLDB, use
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the B<vos listaddrs> command.
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=head1 SEE ALSO
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L<sysid(5)>,
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L<vldb.DB0(5)>,
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L<fileserver(8)>,
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L<fs_getclientaddrs(1)>,
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L<fs_setclientaddrs(1)>,
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L<vos_listaddrs(1)>
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=head1 COPYRIGHT
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IBM Corporation 2000. <http://www.ibm.com/> All Rights Reserved.
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This documentation is covered by the IBM Public License Version 1.0. It was
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converted from HTML to POD by software written by Chas Williams and Russ
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Allbery, based on work by Alf Wachsmann and Elizabeth Cassell.
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