On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 21:04, Greg Lindahl wrote: > Now it would be nice for ethernet broadcast packets to just work(tm) > with IPoIB. "ping -b" is an example of a user-level program that > generates a broadcast packet.
Isn't ping -b a broadcast at the IP (ICMP) level which indirectly causes a broadcast at the link level ? This is different from the arping case which directly wants to send (and receive) link level broadvcasts from user space rather than have the kernel do it on it's behalf. > DHCP clients also generate such packets, and DHCP servers listen for them. > Getting a RARP client and > server to work ought to be the same as a DHCP client and server. DHCP uses UDP so is similar to ping -b in that regard. -- Hal _______________________________________________ openib-general mailing list [email protected] http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
