> -----Original Message----- > From: David Stevens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 12:32 PM > To: Caitlin Bestler > Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List; Michael S. Tsirkin; > netdev@vger.kernel.org > Subject: RE: RFC: move SDP from AF_INET_SDP to IPPROTO_SDP > > IPPROTO_* should match the protocol field on the wire, which > I gather isn't different. And I'm assuming there is no > standard API defined already... >
SDP uses the existing standard sockets API. That was the intent in its design, and it is the sole justification for its use. If you are not using the existing sockets API then your application would be *far* better off coding directly to RDMA. The wire protocol *is* different, it uses RDMA. There is some justification for the application knowing this, albeit slight ones. For example you need to know if the peer supports SDP and it might effect how intermediate firewalls need to be configured. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html