[openib-general] [PATCH] [AT} [TRIVIAL]: Fix typo in header file

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 13:56, Roland Dreier wrote:
>     Hal> The comment is not accurate. The description would be more
>     Hal> accurate to say that it "forces" the use of one of the IP
>     Hal> interfaces which share this source IP address (if a route
>     Hal> exists to the destination). In the case of IPoIB, there is
>     Hal> only one interface per IP address.
> 
> Why do you think there's only one interface per IP address?  For
> example, you can easily try the following:
> 
>     # modprobe ib_ipoib
>     # ip addr add dev ib0 192.168.0.2/24
>     # ip addr add dev ib1 192.168.0.2/24
>     # ip addr show
>     [...]
>     7: ib0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 2044 qdisc noop qlen 128
>         link/[32] 00:02:04:04:fe:80:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:02:c9:01:07:fc:c7:11 brd 00:ff:ff:ff:ff:12:40:1b:ff:ff:00:00:00:00:00:00:ff:ff:ff:ff
>         inet 192.168.0.2/24 scope global ib0
>     8: ib1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 2044 qdisc noop qlen 128
>         link/[32] 00:02:04:05:fe:80:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:02:c9:01:07:fc:c7:12 brd 00:ff:ff:ff:ff:12:40:1b:ff:ff:00:00:00:00:00:00:ff:ff:ff:ff
>         inet 192.168.0.2/24 scope global ib1

I was thinking of bonding rather than multihoming with the same address.

Aren't there operational issues when configured as you show above ?

-- Hal