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

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Date:	Tue, 4 Sep 2012 21:50:09 +0300
From:	Or Gerlitz <or.gerlitz@...il.com>
To:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
Cc:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@...lanox.com>, davem@...emloft.net,
	roland@...nel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, sean.hefty@...el.com,
	Erez Shitrit <erezsh@...lanox.co.il>,
	Ali Ayoub <ali@...lanox.com>,
	Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 09/12] net/eipoib: Add main driver functionality

On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 12:22 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@...hat.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 03, 2012 at 11:53:56PM +0300, Or Gerlitz wrote:

>> So we are remained with #3 - the ARPs -- thinking on this a little
>> further, FWIW there --are-- components in the kernel which
>> mangle/generate ARPs and are exposing netdevice, such as openvswitch, anyway:

>> does it make sense to forward ARPs received into / sent over the
>> eIPoIB netdevice (e.g using some sort of rule) to some outer entity
>> such as user-space daemon  for interception and later re-injection into eIPoIB?

> Well if this is all you want to do, you can bind a packet socket to the
> interface, and drop them at the nic.  It is harder to do for incoming
> ARP requests though.

> I would do something else: send ARPs out to some defined IB address.
> This could be local host or queries from some SA property.  Said remote
> side could send you the responses in ethernet format so you do not need
> to mangle responses at all.  Similarly for incoming ARP requests.

> The rule to do this can also just redirect non IP packets - this is IPoIB after all.

Thanks for the heads up on the possible implementation route, will
look into that.

>> Documentation we will fix,

> And just to stress the point, document the limitations as well.

sure, not that I see concrete limitations for the **user** at this point, but
if there are such, will put them clearly written.

Or.
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