[openib-general] DHCP over infiniband

[Peter Buckingham]

Hal Rosenstock wrote:
> The DHCP client in the kernel does not support IPoIB. You need to
> ifconfig the interfaces as you are doing. There were modifications to
> the ISC DHCP client and server for IPoIB posted a long time ago on the
> list but that would need dusting off again to make it work again. I'm
> not sure if that is of interest.

we tested these patches recently and they still seem to work fine (we 
didn't port them to the latest DHCP though). it should be possible to 
use this client in an initrd or initramfs.

peter