* examples of setting ip address/netmask/etc.. on a device @ 2006-12-12 21:01 Kumar Gala 2006-12-12 22:08 ` Roland Dreier 2006-12-13 4:48 ` Herbert Xu 0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread From: Kumar Gala @ 2006-12-12 21:01 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Netdev 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. - kumar ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: examples of setting ip address/netmask/etc.. on a device 2006-12-12 21:01 examples of setting ip address/netmask/etc.. on a device Kumar Gala @ 2006-12-12 22:08 ` Roland Dreier 2006-12-13 4:48 ` Herbert Xu 1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread From: Roland Dreier @ 2006-12-12 22:08 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Kumar Gala; +Cc: Netdev > 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. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: examples of setting ip address/netmask/etc.. on a device 2006-12-12 21:01 examples of setting ip address/netmask/etc.. on a device Kumar Gala 2006-12-12 22:08 ` Roland Dreier @ 2006-12-13 4:48 ` Herbert Xu 1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread From: Herbert Xu @ 2006-12-13 4:48 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Kumar Gala; +Cc: netdev Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> wrote: > 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. Try drivers/s390/net/qeth_main.c. Of course, it's best to avoid this if at all possible. Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
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