[openib-general] SDP socket address family

[Fab Tillier]

> From: Michael Krause [mailto:krause at cup.hp.com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 4:21 PM
> 
> Why not just leverage the SDP port mapper protocol already defined in the
> RDMAC version and avoid having to provide a new address family?  The port
> mapper protocol is interconnect independent and will enable sockets
> applications to more easily be executed transparently.  It seems
> counterproductive to continue to pursue a new address family.
> 
> BTW, the new port mapper protocol will also work with the new async
> sockets and memory management API that is nearly complete (should be
> approved soon within the OpenGroup).  This would greatly enhance socket
> application design and provide greater performance when operating over a
> RDMA interconnect than traditional BSD sockets.
> 

A while ago, there was some discussion of having transparent port mapping be
a bad thing, and a security vulnerability of some sort.  Note that I don't
personally believe that.

- Fab