netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] iw_cxgb3: Support "iwarp-only" interfaces to avoid 4-tuple conflicts.

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Date:	Fri, 14 Sep 2007 09:06:56 -0700
From:	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>
To:	Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@....mipt.ru>
Cc:	Steve Wise <swise@...ngridcomputing.com>, sean.hefty@...el.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	general@...ts.openfabrics.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] iw_cxgb3: Support "iwarp-only" interfaces to avoid 4-tuple conflicts.

 > Maybe you should automatically create an alias each time new interface
 > is added so that admin would not care about proper aliases?

I agree that makes much more sense from a user interface point of
view.  Unfortunately an alias without an address doesn't make sense,
so there doesn't seem to be a way to implement that.

 - R.
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