[openib-general] OFED 1.1 release - schedule and features

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

Quoting r. Roland Dreier <rdreier at cisco.com>:
> Subject: Re: OFED 1.1 release - schedule and features
> 
>  > So if the link which ib0 maps to is DOWN you move the ib0 IPv4 address
>  > to another device whose link is UP (eg ib1) and you somehow have ib1
>  > send a gratuitous ARP?
> 
> I think there may be a problem in the way IPoIB deals with gratuitous
> ARPs.  Because if a neighbour structure is updated by the networking
> core, there's no way for IPoIB to know about that and update the
> associated IB path.
> Has anyone actually tried this failover approach?


I think we discussed this once - if we see the issue, a single memcmp will
probably solve this.


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