From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jiri Pirko Subject: Re: [question] ipt_CLUSTERIP and address length Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:13:47 +0100 Message-ID: <20100225121346.GE2667@psychotron.lab.eng.brq.redhat.com> References: <20100225101257.GC2667@psychotron.lab.eng.brq.redhat.com> <4B864F9A.90207@trash.net> <20100225113751.GD2667@psychotron.lab.eng.brq.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Patrick McHardy , netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, coreteam@netfilter.org, netfilter@vger.kernel.org To: Jan Engelhardt Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:63015 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932172Ab0BYMN6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Feb 2010 07:13:58 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 01:05:06PM CET, jengelh@medozas.de wrote: > >On Thursday 2010-02-25 12:37, Jiri Pirko wrote: >>> >>>Is there an _actual_ use case however? Is it suddenly possible >>>to use EUI-64s? Or a run on IPX? :-) >> >>Well for example Infiniband has 20-bytes address. But I do not know much about >>this kinds of hw & iptables use. I'm just looking at code and wondering :) > >First have IPv4/v6 running over InfiniBand, then we can talk ;-) > >I did something like that once, but what it came down to was that >an Ethernet layer was inserted between Myrinet and IPv4. >(`ip link` will show.) Ok, fair enough :)