[openib-general] Re: IPoIB

Roland Dreier roland at topspin.com
Mon Apr 4 16:37:10 PDT 2005


    Hal> That's good to hear. There are going to be some other changes
    Hal> for this.  At a quick glance, ipoib_main.c::ipoib_start_xmit
    Hal> drops a unicast link level response if it is not ARP. RARP is
    Hal> also possible there, right ?

Yeah, you're right.  That check can probably just be deleted.  The
driver should trust the kernel to pass it packets it means to send.

    Hal> I'm not sure the Linux code above this is set up to support
    Hal> the larger link level address needed by IPoIB either.

Not sure what you mean by this.

 - R.



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