Open Fabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED)
- IPoIB in OFED 1.5.1 Release Notes
+ IPoIB in OFED 1.5.2 Release Notes
- March 2010
+ August 2010
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3. IPoIB Configuration Based on DHCP
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-Setting an IPoIB interface configuration based on DHCP (v3.1.3 which is
+Setting an IPoIB interface configuration based on DHCP (v3.0.4 which is
available via www.isc.org) is performed similarly to the configuration of
Ethernet interfaces. In other words, you need to make sure that IPoIB
configuration files include the following line:
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ on a RedHat machine
/etc/sysconfig/network/ on a SuSE machine
-Note: A patch for DHCP is required for supporting IPoIB. The patch file for
-DHCP v3.1.3, dhcp.patch, is available under the docs/ directory.
+Note: Two patches for DHCP are required for supporting IPoIB. The patch files
+for DHCP v3.0.4 are available under the docs/dhcp/ directory.
Standard DHCP fields holding MAC addresses are not large enough to contain an
IPoIB hardware address. To overcome this problem, DHCP over InfiniBand messages