term% cat index.txt AAN(8) System Manager's Manual AAN(8)
NAME
aan - always available network
SYNOPSIS
aan -c [ -d ] [ -m maxto ] dialstring
aan [ -d ] [ -m maxto ] netdir
DESCRIPTION
Aan tunnels traffic between a client and a server through a persistent
network connection. If the connection breaks (voluntarily or due to
networking problems), the aan client re-establishes the connection by
redialing the server.
Aan uses a unique protocol to make sure no data is ever lost even when
the connection breaks. After a reconnection, aan retransmits all unac‐
knowledged data between client and server.
A connection can be broken voluntarily (e.g. by roaming over IP net‐
works), or a connection can break when the IP service is unreliable.
In either case, aan re-establishes the client's connection automati‐
cally.
When the server part has not heard from the client in maxto seconds,
the server part of aan exits. The default maxto is one day. The
client side (option -c) calls the server by its dialstring, while the
server side listens for connections in the already-announced network
directory netdir.
Aan is usually run automatically through the -p option of import(4).
EXAMPLE
Assume the server part of aan is encapsulated in exportfs on the ma‐
chine sob and started through aux/listen as follows:
netdir=`{echo $3 | sed 's;/[0-9]+$;!*!0;'}
exec exportfs -a -A $netdir
Then machine astro6's name space can be imported through aan using this
command:
import -p astro6 / /mnt/term
FILES
/sys/log/aan
Log file
SOURCE
/sys/src/cmd/aan.c
SEE ALSO
import(4), exportfs(4)
AAN(8)