On Sun, 2005-10-09 at 10:19, Sean Hefty wrote: > >I think iWARP can be on top of TCP or SCTP. But why wouldn't it care ? > > I'm referring to the case that iWarp is running over TCP. I know that it can > run over SCTP, but I'm not familiar with the details of that protocol. With > TCP, this is an end-to-end connection, so layering iWarp over it, only the > endpoints need to deal with it. I believe the same is true for SCTP.
Yes, SCTP is similar in those regards. > >Doesn't a routing decision still need to be made at the IP layer ? > > Routing of the IP packets is done at the IP layer, but I don't see how this > affects iWarp. It does under the "covers", those covers being IP routing. > >Doesn't the IP next hop need to be determined (e.g. gateway when the > >destination is off the local IP subnet) ? Is there something that > >precludes iWARP from working across IP subnets ? > > I can't think of anything that would preclude iWarp from working > across subnets. Doesn't the IP next hop need determining in that case ? Why is that not relevant ? I don't think the iWARP connection is end to end in all cases. -- 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
