[ofa-general] [PATCHv4 10/10] mlx4: Add RDMAoE support - allow interfaces to correspond to each other

Roland Dreier rdreier at cisco.com
Thu Aug 6 10:38:20 PDT 2009


 > > What about multicast though? Switches are going to have trouble with
 > > group membership lists for non IP packets.. Even just sending a ICMPv6
 > > packet (with an IPv6 ethertype) isn't guaranteed to fix it.

 > In this patch set, all multicast packets use the broadcast mac. We
 > will address this issue at a future time.

I don't see how you can address it in the future -- if later on things
are changed to use multicast addresses, then systems running this code
will silently fail to receive multicasts.

 - R.



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