On Tue, 1 Dec 2009, Eli Cohen wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 09:03:47AM -0500, Jeff Squyres wrote:
> > Per my prior question: is it expected that IBoE will function
> > *exactly* the same as real IB?  The addition of the port attribute
> > seems to imply not.
>
> IBoE and IB should work exactly the same from the perspective of a
> user level application that makes use of rdmacm to create connections.
> Such apps can ignore the new attribute. And we believe this should
> cover the vast majority of apps.  The new port attribute optionally
> allows the distinction for apps that need it (e.g. those that do not
> use the rdmacm, apps that have a reason to prefer one over the other
> when there is a choice, etc).

rdmacm only? I would expect syscall API compatibility? For our use case
this needs to work with multicast traffic.
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