[openib-general] RDMA connection and address translation API

[Steve Wise]

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> From: openib-general-bounces at openib.org 
> [mailto:openib-general-bounces at openib.org] On Behalf Of Roland Dreier
> Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 11:27 AM
> To: Tom Tucker
> Cc: openib-general at openib.org
> 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.