[openib-general] DHCP over Infiniband

Eli Cohen eli at mellanox.co.il
Thu Nov 3 08:47:07 PST 2005


The client is Etherboot's client for configuring a client at boot time. The
server is ISC. Can you explain what you mean by "the QPN issue"?

-----Original Message-----
From: Hal Rosenstock [mailto:halr at voltaire.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 6:07 PM
To: Eli Cohen
Cc: 'openib-general at openib.org'
Subject: Re: [openib-general] DHCP over Infiniband


On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 11:01, Eli Cohen wrote:
> Hi,
> has anyone had the chance to run a DHCP server on an Infiniband
> interface? I checked this on Suse 10 kernel 2.6.13-15-bigsmp and I do
> not get responses from the server to DHCP requests. When running
> tcpdump on ib0 interface I can see the requests but the server does
> not respond. The server's version is isc-dhcpd-V3.0.3. I also tried
> version dhcp-3.0.4b1 but with no luck. I checked on Suse SLES 9 with
> Mellanox's IBGD1.8 and the server responds to requests. I still had a
> problem that the server does not set the client identifier option in
> its responses although the client does set this option. If you have
> any experience with this please let me know.

What DHCP server and what client are you using ? This has been done with
the ISC ones. It requires modifications due to the difference in
hardware addresses (and there is the QPN issue).

-- Hal

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