[openib-general] [PATCH] [AT} [TRIVIAL]: Fix typo in header file

Hal Rosenstock halr at voltaire.com
Wed Jun 22 10:24:34 PDT 2005


On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 12:22, Roland Dreier wrote:
>     > - * src_ip can be provide to force specific output interface.
>     > + * src_ip can be provided to force specific output interface.
> 
> The typo fix is fine but how does srp_ip force a specific output
> interface?  It's perfectly valid to configure every local network
> interface with the same IP address.

The comment is not accurate. The description would be more accurate to
say that it "forces" the use of one of the IP interfaces which share
this source IP address (if a route exists to the destination). In the
case of IPoIB, there is only one interface per IP address.

-- Hal




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