Hefty, Sean wrote on Wed, 29 Jan 2014 at 09:33:19

>> I understand that NetworkDirect is the Microsoft supported API.  But
>> does that API allow connections to Linux or does that depend on the
>> HCA Vendor?
> 
> AFAIK, it depends on the HCA vendor implementation of that interface.
> But, in theory, it should work with an application written to
> verbs/rdmacm on Linux.

I'll make a stronger statement here - if interop between Windows (via Network 
Direct) and Linux (via verbs/rdmacm) does not work, then there is a driver bug 
somewhere.  You should be able to establish connections between a Windows 
Network Direct application and a Linux verbs/rdmacm application.

-Fab
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