[openfabrics-ewg] [openib-general] OFED 1.1 release - schedule and features

Or Gerlitz ogerlitz at voltaire.com
Thu Jul 13 03:43:38 PDT 2006


Tziporet Koren wrote:
> Roland Dreier wrote:

> Since the technical details were not in this mail some features seems a 

>>  > *          IPoIB
>>  > -         Bonding - for high availability

>> that have had no work done (in public at least) yet to be integrated.
>> If 1.1 is going to go to code freeze in 19 days then I don't see how
>> these features can be finished, let alone stabilized in time.

> The solution we wish to add is a not the bonding kernel module but a 
> user level application that will handle failover between IB interfaces 
> (sorry for not being accurate in the feature definition).

So if the link which ib0 maps to is DOWN you move the ib0 IPv4 address 
to another device whose link is UP (eg ib1) and you somehow have ib1 
send a gratuitous ARP?

Or.





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