Good point. But that's about wire behavior, not what an application sees. And yes, the RDMA device must behave as though its IP layer were part of the host stack. That is a strong argument for standardizing many of those interactions rather than relying on fully compliant parallel processing.
-----Original Message----- From: Christoph Hellwig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 1:52 AM To: Caitlin Bestler Cc: Christoph Hellwig; [email protected] Subject: Re: [openib-general] RDMA connection and address translation API On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 02:22:31PM -0700, Caitlin Bestler wrote: > Not if the host connects two disjoint networks and does not route > between them. Such a host should/may be configured to reject any > packet that arrives with a destination address that does not match the > expected destination address for the port it arrives upon. While you can configure a Linux system to reject such request through a bunch of crude hacks, the default and fully RFC compliant behaviour is to always reply to ARP requests for any IP address assigned to the system. RDMA CM implementations must work the same. _______________________________________________ openib-general mailing list [email protected] http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
