netdev - Re: [PATCH V2 09/12] net/eipoib: Add main driver functionality

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Date:	Wed, 8 Aug 2012 09:04:55 +0300
From:	Or Gerlitz <or.gerlitz@...il.com>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:	Ali Ayoub <ali@...lanox.com>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	ogerlitz@...lanox.com, roland@...nel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	sean.hefty@...el.com, erezsh@...lanox.co.il, dledford@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 09/12] net/eipoib: Add main driver functionality

Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com> wrote:
>> Ali Ayoub <ali@...lanox.com> writes:

>> Among other things, the main benefit we're targeting is to allow IPoE
>> traffic within the VM to go through the (Ethernet) vBridge down to the
>> eIPoIB PIF, and eventually to IPoIB and to the IB network.

> Oh yes.  It just occurred to me there is huge problem with eIPoIB as
> currently presented in these patches.  It breaks DHCPv4 the same way
> it breaks ARP, but DHCPv4 is not fixed up.

To put things in place, DHCPv4 is supported with eIPoIB, the DHCP
UDP/IP payload  isn't touched, only need to set the BOOTP broadcast
flag in the dhcp server config file.

Or.
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