[openib-general] Re: IPoIB Partial Connectivity Scenario

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 17:05, Hal Rosenstock wrote:
> On the remote node to which connectivity fails, it has a stale arp cache
> entry which does not seem to go away as if the timer is not started. Is
> that possible ? Is there a case where the ARP entry is created but not
> timed ? 
> 
> /sbin/ip neigh show dev ib0
> 192.168.0.1 lladdr
> 00:00:04:04:fe:80:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:54:42:b1:00:00:09:01 nud stale
> 
> The other nodes' entries (they have bidirectional connectivity) do go
> from reachable to delay to stale to "gone".

With the latest tree (1354), this problem is now gone. Was your change
to ipoib_main.c intended to fix this ?

r1353 | roland | 2004-12-16 23:10:24 -0500 (Thu, 16 Dec 2004) | 4 lines

Be slightly more careful about when we queue packets.

Thanks.

-- Hal