Konrad Rzeszutek wrote: > On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 04:20:45PM -0500, Mike Christie wrote: >> Hannes Reinecke wrote: >>> For boot from iSCSI we need to the fwparam_ibft program >>> to setup the network correctly. This patch moves the >>> fwparam_ibft files into a library and adds a new program >>> fwparam_ibft to print out the network parameter. >>> >> Why do you need a new program to print out the network info? I was >> working on the same problem, and was working on a patch to print it out >> with the rest of the ibft info. The patch was made over some RHEL/FC >> stuff that is used with the ibft sysfs module Konrad did (I or Konard >> will post the rest of the code later (I thought he had, but I did not >> see it on the list)). >> >> I am not sure I care much which one we do. I just do not like the extra >> program because it is one more thing to remember, so I started the way I >> did. >> >> Oh yeah, have you tried the ppc stuff yet? What does it print out for > > iBFT.platform != PPC
Yeah, I know I am am not sure what is called so I have been calling it that to type less. But still we want to print out the netinfo for both platforms, so I am wondering what we get from ppc's iface param. > >> the netdevice? The ibft kernel module links to the net device sysfs dir >> which is nice, so you do not have to match MAC addrs. >> >> Also what you going to do for DHCP? Are you just going to use the ip >> values from ibft? Makes sense. I am just asking, because I noticed weird > > That one is tricky. The spec doesn't say you can diffrenciate between the > dhcp value and the ip value of the IBFT NIC spec. You could have the 'IP' > header filled with a valid IPv6 IP _and_ the 'DHCP' field filled with IPv4 > values. > Ah ok thanks. There is that comment in the original ibft program that said that said we would have one or the other or something. I guess that is why I see somehting different. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "open-iscsi" group. To post to this group, send email to open-iscsi@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/open-iscsi -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---