On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 15:47, Arthur Jones wrote: > hi hal, ... > > On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 11:26:26AM -0400, Hal Rosenstock wrote: > > > [...] > > > i'm imagining that all the "proprietary" eth > > > interfaces + ipoib need to do about the same > > > thing when it comes to registering with mcast > > > groups. would you (all) be averse to pulling some > > > of the mcast group registration code out into > > > the core ib driver for all to use? > > > > Isn't this already done with Sean's multicast work ? > > after reading the code, iiuc, sean's work provides > nice infrastructure for ib_multicast group join/leave. > i was thinking about one more level up, i.e. generic > _net_ multicast join/leave infrastructure. i'm not > sure exactly how it would go -- but i think all the ib > net_devices are going to need a way to associate a > multicast hw addr w/ a live mgid.
Don't IPmc addresses translate to MGIDs per the RFC ? MGIDs are not hardware addresses (MLIDs are). -- Hal > if that could be broken out, we could all share it... > arthur _______________________________________________ openib-general mailing list [email protected] http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
