[Tipc-discussion] Update processor node id

[Kevin K. He <he...@ya...>]

Can we update the processor node ID dynamically ? For example
at the installation time I do "insmod tipc.o node=1", later
can I update the node to 2 or 3, ..etc. ? Will TIPC tolerate 
such change ?

Thanks
Kevin

--- "Ling, Xiaofeng" <xia...@in...> wrote:
> currently nodeid is only 12bit, and a whole tipc address is 32bit, including zone,cluster, and
> node three part.
> Seems it is not so simple to change it to 64bit.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: tip...@li... 
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> > Behalf Of Kevin Kaichuan He
> > Sent: 2004Äê3ÔÂ12ÈÕ 12:57
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> > Subject: [Tipc-discussion] 64-bit processor node id
> > 
> > 
> > Currently I see the driver.c uses a "int node" to store
> > the process node id.  So it will be 32-bit node id on
> > 32-bit processors.
> > 
> > I am thinking that whether we can make it 64-bit. The reason is 
> > that 64-bit integer is enough to store ethernet MAC address. 
> > So in order to generate a cluster-wide unique node id the 
> > managment planes on different nodes don't need exchange any 
> > network packets because they can simply use MAC addresses 
> > as their node ids.
> > 
> > One motivation of using TIPC in our project is that we can 
> > avoid the complexity of IP address managment in a stack of L2 
> > switches. With 64-bit node id, I guess every node in our 
> > stack can start tipc totally independent from others.
> > 
> > Will there be negative impact of 64-bit node id on the tipc ?
> > 
> > Thank you!
> > 
> > Kevin
> > 
> > 
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