[openib-general] IB Address Translation service

[Yaron Haviv]

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[mailto:openib-general-bounces at openib.org] On Behalf Of Michael Krause
Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 2:07 AM
To: openib-general at openib.org
Subject: RE: [openib-general] IB Address Translation service

At 11:47 AM 2/28/2005, Yaron Haviv wrote:

>It would be a mistake to attempt to use anything by IP addresses (v4 or
v6) from an >application perspective. Mapping to IB must be application
transparent to be viable.
>
>Mike

Mike, the all idea behind the proposed ib_at calls is to provide
semantics matching between IP and IB in a way where the applications
wont feel the difference, but will still make use of all IB
capabilities. Advanced applications can still use the advanced IB
specific functionality through the optional parameters.

ATS is just a minor option in the API (the less important one)

Yaron