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From: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	rdreier@cisco.com, anilgv@broadcom.com, michaelc@cs.wisc.edu,
	netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, open-iscsi@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] bnx2i: Add bnx2i iSCSI driver.
Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 10:47:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <483D1C05.70101@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <483CD3F3.6070308@garzik.org>

Hi all,

Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Michael Chan wrote:
>> If we change the implementation to use a separate IP address and
>> separate MAC address for iSCSI, will it be acceptable?  The iSCSI IP/MAC
>> addresses will be unknown to the Linux TCP stack and so no sharing of
>> the 4-tuple space will be needed.
>>
>> The patches will be very similar, except that all inet calls and
>> notifiers will be removed.
> 
> 
> IMO a totally separate MAC and IP would definitely be preferred...
> 
And as it happens, the machines I have here claim to use a different
MAC address for iSCSI anyway. So we should be using them.

Cheers,

Hannes
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  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-28  8:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-22  1:06 [PATCH 0/3] bnx2: Add iSCSI support Michael Chan
     [not found] ` <1211418386-18203-1-git-send-email-mchan-dY08KVG/lbpWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2008-05-22  1:06   ` [PATCH 1/3] bnx2: Add support for CNIC driver Michael Chan
2008-05-22  6:45     ` Paul E. McKenney
     [not found]       ` <20080522064541.GA11933-23VcF4HTsmIX0ybBhKVfKdBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org>
2008-05-22 19:23         ` Michael Chan
2008-05-23  3:45           ` Paul E. McKenney
     [not found]             ` <20080523034522.GA8612-23VcF4HTsmIX0ybBhKVfKdBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org>
2008-05-23  4:52               ` Michael Chan
2008-05-23  5:32                 ` Paul E. McKenney
     [not found]     ` <1211418386-18203-2-git-send-email-mchan-dY08KVG/lbpWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2008-05-22 15:18       ` Konrad Rzeszutek
2008-05-22  1:06   ` [PATCH 3/3] bnx2i: Add bnx2i iSCSI driver Michael Chan
     [not found]     ` <1211418386-18203-4-git-send-email-mchan-dY08KVG/lbpWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2008-05-22 15:15       ` Konrad Rzeszutek
2008-05-22 15:52         ` Ben Hutchings
2008-05-22 19:06         ` Anil Veerabhadrappa
2008-05-22 21:15     ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-05-22 22:59       ` Michael Chan
2008-05-23 20:23     ` Roland Dreier
2008-05-23 21:42       ` Anil Veerabhadrappa
2008-05-27 14:38         ` Roland Dreier
2008-05-27 19:17           ` Michael Chan
2008-05-27 18:21             ` Roland Dreier
2008-05-27 19:52           ` David Miller
2008-05-28  0:48             ` Michael Chan
2008-05-28  3:39               ` Jeff Garzik
2008-05-28  8:47                 ` Hannes Reinecke [this message]
2008-05-22  1:06 ` [PATCH 2/3] cnic: Add CNIC driver Michael Chan
2008-05-22  7:44   ` Paul E. McKenney
2008-05-22 19:46     ` Michael Chan
2008-05-23  3:47       ` Paul E. McKenney
2008-05-23 20:09   ` Roland Dreier
2008-05-23 20:14   ` Roland Dreier
2008-05-24  0:42     ` Michael Chan

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