Roland Dreier wrote: > I don't like this complexity, since waiting for an ARP probe is the > standard way of revalidating paths. Wouldn't it be better just to lower > the ARP refresh time if this is important to someone? > > - R. > _______________________________________________ > general mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/general > > To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general > Lowering time between ARP probes might be a simpler solution but it has disadvantages 1. Frequent ARP probes (few seconds gap) might be disturbing during normal operation and I don't know if network managers would be happy to change it. 2. The time between probes has minimum value which might not be small enough to those who want fast recovery.
I am resending the patch with a bug fix I found plus better change log in case you consider to apply it (I hope so) _______________________________________________ general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
