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[ipoib] Transmit multicast packets as broadcasts 

Multicast MAC addresses will never have REMAC cache entries, and the
corresponding multicast IPoIB MAC address cannot be obtained simply by
issuing an ARP request.

For the trivial volume of multicast packets that we expect to send in
any realistic scenario, the simplest solution is to send them as
broadcasts instead.

Reported-by: Wissam Shoukair <wissams@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
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Michael Brown 2015-07-06 13:06:55 +01:00
parent 38afcc51ea
commit 652e5a96db
1 changed files with 4 additions and 2 deletions
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@ -146,8 +146,10 @@ static struct ipoib_mac * ipoib_find_remac ( struct ipoib_device *ipoib,
const struct ipoib_remac *remac ) {
struct ipoib_peer *peer;
/* Check for broadcast REMAC */
if ( is_broadcast_ether_addr ( remac ) )
/* Check for broadcast or multicast REMAC. We transmit
* multicasts as broadcasts for simplicity.
*/
if ( is_multicast_ether_addr ( remac ) )
return &ipoib->broadcast;
/* Try to find via REMAC cache */