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Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 09/12] net/eipoib: Add main driver functionality
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On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 07:34:23AM +0300, Or Gerlitz wrote:
> > Infiniband is standard enough you could quite easily implement virtual
> > infiniband bridging as an alternative to ethernet bridging.
> 
> Not really, as Michael indicated in his response over this thread
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=134419288218373&w=2
> IPoIB link layer addresses use IB HW constructs for which soft
> hardware address setting isn't supported, and this interferes
> with live migration.
> 
> Or.

But I'd just like to point out your code does not support softmac
either.

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