Re: [PATCH net-next 00/10] NCSI Support
From: Or Gerlitz <hidden>
Date: 2016-07-07 13:44:03
On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 12:17 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt [off-list ref] wrote:
On Thu, 2016-07-07 at 12:12 +0300, Or Gerlitz wrote:quoted
On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 8:44 PM, Alexei Starovoitov [off-list ref] wrote:quoted
On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 01:03:06AM +0300, Or Gerlitz wrote:quoted
Or, since cx4 has ncsi as well, could you do a thorough review of this to make sure that it fits mellanox nics as well?Hi Alexei, all Yuval from our team who deals with host management did review on the series, SB his feedback. 1. The initialization uses a single unicast MAC address which hints it assumes that the management traffic is IPv4 only. The infrastructure does not seem to be ready for IPv6 based management traffic.You mean the transfer of the MAC address from the BMC to the NIC for filtering incoming traffic ?
The initialization sequence uses "Set MAC Command" once and initializes MAC[1] in the chosen NC-SI pass-through channel. If IPv6 is used, then the BMC multicast address (derived from the assigned IP address to the BMC) shall also be configured (after the IP address is assigned), and some multicast filtering shall be set as well.