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From: Divy Le Ray <divy@chelsio.com>
Subject: [ofa-general] Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] cxgb3: Handle ARP completions that
 mark neighbors stale.
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 10:27:34 -0800
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Steve Wise wrote:
> cxgb3: Handle ARP completions that mark neighbors stale.
>
> When ARP completes due to a request rather than a reply the neighbor is
> marked NUD_STALE instead of reachable (see arp_process()).  The handler
> for the resulting netevent needs to check also for NUD_STALE.
>
> Failure to use the arp entry can cause RDMA connection failures.
>
> Signed-off-by: Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com>
>   

Acked-by: Divy Le Ray <divy@chelsio.com>

Divy