> Quoting Sean Hefty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Subject: Re: [ofa-general] Re: Re: IPoIB-CM UC mode > > >So we must send something that will force remote side to respond. One such > >message is LAP with current primary path used as proposed alternate path. > >Remote will respond with APR with AP status 5 if the connection is there, > >and > >status 1 if it is not. > > I didn't follow this. Is this just an out of band keep alive message?
Yes. Exactly. > Why not use DREQ to indicate that the connection went away under normal > circumstances, Yes, clearly we do this. Keepalives cover the failure cases: remote is down, or has rebooted, or all DREQs were lost, etc ... > and a send failure in an abnormal termination case? What do you mean by "send failure"? Completion with error? We only get these with RC, not with UC. -- MST _______________________________________________ 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
