On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 09:54, James Lentini wrote: > Being able to debug connectivity problems at the IB level strikes me > as very useful. Perhaps some people expect to always use IPoIB on > their IB network, and therefore plan to use IP tools. Even in these > configurations, native IB protocols would be useful if IPoIB wasn't > working.
Right; IPoIB relies on more working (multicasting, etc.) than this proposal does. > It looks like you modeled the ECHO and TIMESTAMP formats after their > ICMP counterparts. Yes. > The TIMESTAMP type appears to have been dropped from ICMPv6. Do you know why? No but it sounds like it might be relevant. The only thing I saw were some comments related to security and replay attacks. Not sure if that was the reason it was eliminated from ICMPv6. -- Hal _______________________________________________ openib-general mailing list [email protected] http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
