From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
To: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Cc: Karl Svec <karlsvec@gmail.com>,
linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Bonding support for eth1394?
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 08:34:44 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <adair5bm3jf.fsf@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47106EDE.1090601@s5r6.in-berlin.de> (Stefan Richter's message of "Sat, 13 Oct 2007 09:08:14 +0200")
> The bonding sources have a few occurrences of EOPNOTSUPP. Unless I
> missed something, they are all related to setting the hardware address
> of the interface. AFAICS this is impossible with IP over FireWire. If
> it is crucial to bonding to be able to change the slaves' hardware
> addresses, then you are out of luck.
There are a few changes to the bonding driver pending that will add
support for bonding IP-over-InfiniBand interfaces. IPoIB also cannot
change its HW address, so the patches address that issue.
Once those patches land, bonding eth1394 interfaces may "just work".
- R.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-13 15:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <FFB081ED-646B-489D-8836-FBA619A57E3E@gmail.com>
2007-10-13 7:08 ` Bonding support for eth1394? Stefan Richter
2007-10-13 15:34 ` Roland Dreier [this message]
2007-10-13 18:03 ` Stefan Richter
2007-10-14 6:18 ` Bill Fink
2007-10-14 11:47 ` Stefan Richter
2007-10-15 17:02 ` Rick Jones
2008-02-19 21:27 ` Stefan Richter
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