On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 13:54, Sean Hefty wrote: > > You'd need to use a vendor class 2 if you wanted to use RMPP as the SA > > does. However, there is some rearranging you would need to do if you > > compare the relevant MAD formats. > > Vendor class 2 just adds the OUI, correct?
Yes, so there are 4 less bytes available. > I guess you could either move the SA specific header by 4-bytes, Yes, everything starting with SM_Key. > or use a 32-bit key. I think that was deemed too weak and why 64 bits was chosen to begin with. > It's not clear to me when to use vendor-specific versus application > specific, but I think that we could use application specific as well. Yes, but there would be more work involved for RMPP. There is no way to know if such a class uses RMPP. > The mad layer just wouldn't know to enable RMPP as easily as it does > with vendor class 2. Ugh... That's an understatement. -- Hal > - Sean _______________________________________________ general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
