[openib-general] IPoIB multicast group creation

Hal Rosenstock halr at voltaire.com
Wed Mar 1 18:57:58 PST 2006


Hi Sean,

On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 18:30, Sean Hefty wrote:
> Can someone explain when ipoib creates a multicast group?
> 
> As a reference, I'm working on a kernel module that tracks multicast join/leave
> requests.  I was considering using a modified copy of ipoib to test the basic
> operation.

This is highly implementation dependent. Are you interested in the
algorithm OpenIB (Linux) uses or in general ? Also, are you interested
in groups aside from the IPoIB broadcast group ? (I'm lazy and only want
to write up what you need :-)

-- Hal

> - Sean
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