[openfabrics-ewg] [openib-general] OFED 1.1 release - schedule and features

Roland Dreier rdreier at cisco.com
Thu Jul 13 13:10:44 PDT 2006


 > So if the link which ib0 maps to is DOWN you move the ib0 IPv4 address
 > to another device whose link is UP (eg ib1) and you somehow have ib1
 > send a gratuitous ARP?

I think there may be a problem in the way IPoIB deals with gratuitous
ARPs.  Because if a neighbour structure is updated by the networking
core, there's no way for IPoIB to know about that and update the
associated IB path.

Has anyone actually tried this failover approach?

 - R.




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