Re: Advice needed on IP-over-InfiniBand driver

[jamal <hadi@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2004-09-19 at 17:01, David S. Miller wrote:
> You probably want to be editing net/ipv4/arp.c and testing
> it about Infiniband.  Keep neighbour entries in the unresolved
> stated until both transitions are made:
> 
> 1) obtain 20 byte address
> 2) get response from IB subnet manager
> 
> Only store the destination GID in the neighbour entry,
> and only mark the neighbour entry as resolved once
> #2 above completes successfully.

Probably just easier to have his own private tables holding reference to
neighbor entries instead of polluting the neighbor tables.
Listens to ARP events - on state transition to/from reachable state he
queries his remote manager. 
Curious though if ARP still works even when that "path" thing hasnt been
resolved.

cheers,
jamal