[openib-general] Re: More on IPoIB Multicast

[Nitin Hande]

Peter Buckingham wrote:
> Nitin Hande wrote:
> 
>>I just started taking a look at the existing bonding driver and
>>evaluating what work needs to be done to support ipoib driver below it.
>>It seems to me like a lot of pieces for this approach are readily
>>available (ifenslave and other logic) etc and besides I guess that will
>>keep one standard approach of doing bonding in linux. I also assume that
>>while the ipoib gets enslaved, it will get enough opportunity to take
>>right set of steps for its present connections and traffic etc. I might
>>be wrong here though. Would like to hear from other members about this one.
> 
> 
> i took a quick look at this a little while ago (admittedly with gen1 
> IPoIB) and when trying to enslave the ib0, ib1 interfaces the bonding 
> driver complains about an unsupported ioctl. i didn't have any time to 
> track it down much further than that. if there's some interest i could 
> take a bit more of a look at it.
Yes, some of that needs to be implemented for ipoib. I have some bits
being readied. But before that would like to hear from people about
various approaches.

Thanks
Nitin


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> peter
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