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SubjectRe: A kexec approach to hibernation
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On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 11:01 -0400, Jeremy Maitin-Shepard wrote:
> >> You might claim then that the solution is to simply keep the network
> >> driver quiesced or stopped. But then it is impossible to write the
> >> image over the network. The way to get around this problem is to write
> >> the image over the network using a fresh network stack.
>
> > Or teach the driver stack about the difference/reset it. Remember that
> > even if you get a fresh network stack, you'll still be getting packets
> > for the old stack. Getting a new ip (assuming one is available) won't
> > stop other connections getting killed, either because we send resets
> > from the kexec'd kernel, or because they timeout looking for the old
> > ip.
>
> I could be mistaken, but I think that bringing up the network interface
> with a different IP address would prevent it from reseting existing TCP
> connections, because it would never receive the packets for those
> existing connections.

That can't work. There are networks where the client must have a fixed
IP, or must accept the adress given by dhcp in order to talk to
fileservers. And you still have the same mac adress, which may cause
problems.

Xav


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