[ofa-general] arp or ip patch to build a neigh permanent entry for IPoIB

[James Lentini]

On Tue, 22 Apr 2008, Or Gerlitz wrote:

> On 4/22/08, Shirley Ma <mashirle at us.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> 	I am debugging an ipoib ping problem on a cluster. The arp, ip 
>       command don't support using 20 bytes HW to build a permanent
>       entry manually. Can someone give me the pointer to the patch
>       if any?
> 	
> 
> 
> see http://lists.openfabrics.org/pipermail/general/2006-March/018487.html
> 
> James, any news on this? is something need to be patched into ip/arp 
> to make this possible?

The patch in my email was all I needed. I sent that patch to the 
iproute2 maintainer and it was accepted into the next version of the 
iproute2 release, see:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/shemminger/iproute2.git;a=commit;h=7b5657545dc246ae37690d660597e8fa37040205

Have you tried updating your ip command?