The ip(8) command has a bug when dealing with IPoIB link layer
addresses. Specifically it does not correctly handle the addition of
new entries in the neighbor/arp table. For example, this command will
fail:
ip neigh add 192.168.0.138 lladdr
00:00:04:04:fe:80:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:01:73:00:00:00:8a:91 nud
permanent dev ib0
An IPoIB link layer address is 20-bytes (see
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ipoib-ip-over-infiniband-09.txt,
section 9.1.1).
The command line parsing code expects link layer addresses to be a
maximum of 16-bytes. Addresses over 16-bytes are truncated.
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
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+2006-03-21 James Lentini <jlentini@netapp.com>
+
+ * Increase size of hw address allowed for ip neigh to allow
+ for IB.
+
2006-03-14 Russell Stuart <russell-lartc@stuart.id.au>
* Fix missing memset in tc sample