[openib-general] DHCP over Infiniband

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 11:01, Eli Cohen wrote:
> Hi,
> has anyone had the chance to run a DHCP server on an Infiniband
> interface? I checked this on Suse 10 kernel 2.6.13-15-bigsmp and I do
> not get responses from the server to DHCP requests. When running
> tcpdump on ib0 interface I can see the requests but the server does
> not respond. The server's version is isc-dhcpd-V3.0.3. I also tried
> version dhcp-3.0.4b1 but with no luck. I checked on Suse SLES 9 with
> Mellanox's IBGD1.8 and the server responds to requests. I still had a
> problem that the server does not set the client identifier option in
> its responses although the client does set this option. If you have
> any experience with this please let me know.

What DHCP server and what client are you using ? This has been done with
the ISC ones. It requires modifications due to the difference in
hardware addresses (and there is the QPN issue).

-- Hal