This may have been answered by now, But in the process of creating the broadcast group there are quite a few parameters that are better off not being left to the end client (MTU being a big one)
I can see this service record returning all of the needed parameters, therfor letting the central administrator have a central point of control Bill > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: [openib-general] IPoIB Loading and Starting > From: "Roland Dreier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, September 29, 2004 8:16 am > To: "Michael Krause" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Michael> The IETF might be able to do something here but the best > Michael> that might be done is perhaps an informational draft. Is > Michael> this what is required to make forward progress here? > > I think so. Without an IETF draft, there _will_ be implementations > that do not create a service record, and therefore interoperable > implementations will have to function both in subnets without service > records and subnets with service records. > > However, reading back over this thread, I'm not clear on what purpose > having a service record for IPoIB serves. Why can't an implementation > just look for the IPoIB broadcast multicast groups for each P_Key to > decide whether to use that P_Key? > > Thanks, > Roland > _______________________________________________ > openib-general mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general > > To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general _______________________________________________ openib-general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
