On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Caitlin Bestler wrote:
> NFS over RDMA does not do that. > > Shouldn't that be the end of discussion on abusing CM private data > unless you are talking *solely* about IB private data. And if that is > the discussion, should not such a strategy be proposed to IETF > and/or IBTA for an NFSoRDMA for IB official mapping? Since this is IB specific, I think it should be addressed in the IBTA. > The other end of the NFSoRDMA connection is not necessarily > running OpenIB or even Linux and is not party to any of these > discussions. > > > > > My resistance is that ATS is just complexity without any benefit. It > > doesn't provide additional security. It doesn't solve the > > multi-homing problem we're talking about now. Once you've thrown away > > information by turning your IP address into an IB GID, there's no > > magic way ATS can recreate that information and be psychic about which > > of the multi-homed IPs you actually meant. So why not just put the IP > > addressing information into the CM private data, the way that the SDP > > protocol already does? _______________________________________________ openib-general mailing list [email protected] http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
