[openfabrics-ewg] Re: DHCP modifications for usage with IPoIB

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 07:50, Leonid Arsh wrote:
> Doug Ledford wrote:
> >> The program was tested with linux kernel version 2.6.15 and most
> >> probably requires 2.6.14 or later.
> >>     
> >
> > Why 2.6.14 or later?  What's missing from earlier kernels that the patch
> > relies upon?
> >
> >   
> Talking about 2.6.14 I meant this patch:
> linux-2.6.13-af-packet.diff
> <http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.openib/15484>
> ([PATCH] af_packet: Allow for > 8 byte hardware addresses) 
> <http://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?message_id=%3cm1irwvhd5x.fsf%40ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com%3e>
> applied for 2.6.14.
> 
> Probably the program will work without the patch, but I didn't test it.

I haven't done this in a while but I don't think either DHCP or arping
could work properly for IPoIB without this kernel patch.

-- Hal