On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 09:58:44AM -0700, Caitlin Bestler wrote: > > I understand most of what you wrote but am still missing one bit: > > How is the RNIC told what the peer IP is it should communicate with? > > The TCP Connection is already established before the RNIC takes > control of the connection. Therefore the entire TCP state is already > established (source/dest IP Address/Port, negotiated options, EMSS, > local options, etc.).
Would "shares the connection" be a better description? I think I get the concepts at least now...this follows what I was suggesting earlier about having an RNIC support both NAPI (New API for NICs) (code under drivers/net) and openib.org Gen2 stack (code in drivers/infiniband). thanks, grant _______________________________________________ openib-general mailing list [email protected] http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
