[openib-general] [PATCH][v3][17/21] Add IPoIB (IP-over-InfiniBand)driver

Hal Rosenstock halr at voltaire.com
Tue Dec 14 08:31:34 PST 2004


On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 19:14, Roland Dreier wrote:
>     Hal> Also, isn't DHCP over IB
>     Hal> (http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ipoib-dhcp-over-infiniband-07.txt)
>     Hal> also supported ? If so, is that part of this or some other
>     Hal> patch being submitted ?
> 
> DHCP should work but I don't think it's a kernel issue 

Where is Linux DHCP kept ? Are the IB changes incorporated into the DHCP
source package ? If so, what version is needed ?

> (I don't think kernel DHCP for NFS root over IPoIB will work unfortunately).

Does root over NFS only work with RARP or BOOTP and not DHCP ? Is this
because DHCP (cleint) is not in the kernel ?

Thanks.

-- Hal







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