On Friday 04 March 2005 22.06, Talpey, Thomas wrote: > At 02:58 PM 3/4/2005, Tom Duffy wrote: > >In any event, I think being able to plop an IB network in an Ethernet > >world will require things like RARP to work. If there is no spec now, > >it should be written. > > I can't remember the last time I saw a machine RARP. Well, maybe I do > but it was like 1980-something. Since DHCP, I don't think there's a > reason for hosts to do it.
If my memory servers me righ clustermatic uses rarp instead of dhcp since it's much lighter and simpler. I can imagine that if you have to code something that's not in a full OS, implementing a rarp based find-my-ip function will seem alot more fun than implementing a dhcp-client (or porting one...). /Peter -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Peter Kjellstr�m | E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] National Supercomputer Centre | Sweden | http://www.nsc.liu.se _______________________________________________ openib-general mailing list [email protected] http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
