[openib-general] DHCP over infiniband

[Hal Rosenstock]

Hi Peter,

On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 14:38, Peter Buckingham wrote:
> 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.

Thanks.

Is it worth dusting them off, updating to the latest ISC version, and
getting them into the ISC release ?

-- Hal