[ofa-general] [PATCHv4 10/10] mlx4: Add RDMAoE support - allowinterfaces to correspond to each other
Liran Liss
liranl at mellanox.co.il
Thu Aug 6 14:04:49 PDT 2009
> > What about multicast though? Switches are going to have trouble
with > > group membership lists for non IP packets.. Even just sending
a ICMPv6 > > packet (with an IPv6 ethertype) isn't guaranteed to fix
it.
> In this patch set, all multicast packets use the broadcast mac. We >
will address this issue at a future time.
I don't see how you can address it in the future -- if later on things
are changed to use multicast addresses, then systems running this code
will silently fail to receive multicasts.
- R.
We initially intended to defer this to a separate patch set for brevity,
but I understand your point.
We will work out a solution and resend.
Thanks,
--Liran
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