Re: [PATCH v2] RDMA/CMA: fix iWARP adapter TCP port space usage

Jason Gunthorpe
2010-06-23T20:09:37Z

On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 03:11:27PM -0500, Steve Wise wrote:
> The IP address assigned for the cxgb3i iscsi device is _not_ assigned to
> a netdev interface via ifconfig, as far as I understand it (by looking
> at the cxgb3i code). So the host stack doesn't know about this address.
> There is an administrative requirement, I assume, that the secret iscsi
> ipaddr is within a subnet that is bound to the T3 ethX interface.
> Otherwise the routing lookup wouldn't work.

So who responds to neighbor queries, and how do outgoing queries get
sent with the right IP? Sounds odd...

Jason