Re: Usable translators: nsmux details

[Sergiu Ivanov]

Hello,

On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 07:12:54AM +0200, olafBuddenhagen@gmx.net wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 09, 2010 at 03:32:52PM +0300, Sergiu Ivanov wrote:
> 
> > As far as I can remember, nsmux keeps the control ports of the started
> > translators, which, as I understand it, won't let them go away because
> > of absence of clients.
> 
> Nope. There is *always* someone who has the control port of a translator
> -- otherwise, no client could ever connect... The control ports do not
> prevent a translator from going away (where would the fsys_goaway()
> request be sent to if there was no control port open?...); only protid
> ports do.

Aha, good to hear.  This means that, unless nsmux opens bogus ports
(which I don't remember), the anonymous translators will actually go
away after the timeout with the current design.
 
Thanks for the explanation! :-)

Best regards,
Sergiu