From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Roland Dreier Subject: Re: examples of setting ip address/netmask/etc.. on a device Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:08:46 -0800 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Netdev Return-path: Received: from sj-iport-4.cisco.com ([171.68.10.86]:22818 "EHLO sj-iport-4.cisco.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932470AbWLLWIu (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Dec 2006 17:08:50 -0500 To: Kumar Gala In-Reply-To: (Kumar Gala's message of "Tue, 12 Dec 2006 15:01:53 -0600") Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org > I was wondering if there were any examples of net devices that expect > to be told the ip information for their connection (things doing > forms of offload). If so can someone point me at a driver that does > this. I don't know much about the HW details but drivers/infiniband/hw/amso1100 does something like that. drivers/infiniband is somewhat misnamed these days but amso1100 is a driver for RDMA over ethernet hardware.