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Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:27:55 +0100 From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de> To: Karl Svec <karlsvec@...il.com> CC: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@...com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, Bill Fink <billfink@...dspring.com>, linux1394-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com> Subject: Re: Bonding support for eth1394? Roland Dreier wrote on 2007-10-13: > > The bonding sources have a few occurrences of EOPNOTSUPP. Unless I > > missed something, they are all related to setting the hardware address > > of the interface. AFAICS this is impossible with IP over FireWire. If > > it is crucial to bonding to be able to change the slaves' hardware > > addresses, then you are out of luck. > > There are a few changes to the bonding driver pending that will add > support for bonding IP-over-InfiniBand interfaces. IPoIB also cannot > change its HW address, so the patches address that issue. > > Once those patches land, bonding eth1394 interfaces may "just work". Bill Fink wrote on 2007-10-14: > While that might allow multiple eth1394 interfaces to be bonded, > I believe the user wanted to bond an eth1394 interface with a normal > Ethernet interface, and I don't think that will work even with the > IPoIB bonding changes, since bonding of different fundamental types > of network interfaces still won't be supported, and I'm pretty sure > eth1394 is not considered a standard Ethernet interface (different > MAC address format for one thing). Karl, you could try kernel 2.6.24(.2) which AFAIU features the mentioned changes. -- Stefan Richter -=====-==--- --=- =--== http://arcgraph.de/sr/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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