[openib-general] DHCP over Infiniband

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 11:47, Eli Cohen wrote:
> The client is Etherboot's client for configuring a client at boot
> time. The server is ISC. 

I think that client needs modifications.

> Can you explain what you mean by "the QPN issue"?

The QPN is part of the hardware address and is not fixed.

-- Hal

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hal Rosenstock [mailto:halr at voltaire.com]
> Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 6:07 PM
> To: Eli Cohen
> Cc: 'openib-general at openib.org'
> Subject: Re: [openib-general] DHCP over Infiniband
> 
> 
> 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
> 
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