Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:40:45 -0800 (PST) | Subject | Re: [PATCH] seastar - SeaStar Ethernet driver | From | David Miller <> |
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From: "Kevin Pedretti" <ktpedre@sandia.gov> Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 18:24:02 -0700
> 4. Device only supports IPv4? -> Yes, that's correct. No IPv6 support. > The driver squashes everything but IPv4 in eth2ss().
Not just IPV6, what about other ethernet protocols?
What about ARP? How does IPV4 work if you only accept ETH_P_IP? You need to accept at least ETH_P_ARP for things to work.
> 2. May want to use alloc_netdev() -> Didn't do this. Would there be a > substantial advantage to doing this?
I think you're going to end up having to make this change.
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