> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Roland Dreier > Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 11:27 AM > To: Tom Tucker > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [openib-general] RDMA connection and address > translation API > > Tom> I think I understand, but the purpose of specifying the IP > Tom> address in the listen is not to filter incoming connect > Tom> requests, but rather to determine which devices I listen > Tom> on. I think this works for the IB case as well. So the > Tom> utility of the IP address specified in the listen is only to > Tom> determine which devices the sid is created on. Does this make > Tom> sense or am I missing something? > > Well, that's not what I would expect. Suppose I have a device > configured with local addresses 192.168.11.12 and 192.168.98.99 and I > start listening for some service at the address 192.168.11.12. I > don't think I should see a connection request if a remote system tries > to connect to 192.168.98.99 (even though it's the same network > interface as 192.168.11.12). >
I agree Roland. ULPs that listen to a specific addr, expect only connections requests that were sent to that ip addr. I think we want to provide this functionality. _______________________________________________ openib-general mailing list [email protected] http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
