[openib-general] static ARP entries for IPoIB?

[James Lentini]

On Sun, 5 Nov 2006, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:

> Quoting r. Roland Dreier <rdreier at cisco.com>:
> > Subject: Re: static ARP entries for IPoIB?
> > 
> >  > I'd like to create static ARP entries for some IPoIB
> >  > devices. The arp (8) command that I'm using doesn't
> >  > know about ARPHRD_INFINIBAND (this is arp version 1.88
> >  > from net-tools-1.60-583.4.src.rpm, in SLES10.) Is there
> >  > a version of arp (8) that works with IB? Or some other
> >  > utility or means to make static ARP entries for IPoIB?
> > 
> > "ip neigh add ..."
> 
> BTW, can't/shouldn't we fix arp?

When I looked at the issue a while back, I concluded that it should 
not be changed:

 http://openib.org/pipermail/openib-general/2006-March/018270.html

FYI: I sent the ip neighbor patch to the iproute2 maintainer. He 
wanted at patch to support IBoIB MAC addresses for all ip subcommands. 
You can see some of the suggestions here:

 http://openib.org/pipermail/openib-general/2006-March/018487.html