[openib-general] mapping between IP address and device name

Itamar Rabenstein itamar at mellanox.co.il
Sun Jun 26 00:10:08 PDT 2005


> On the other hand, placing a mandatory content in the CM exchange
> brings in a whole different raft of interoperability 
> questions, as James
> mentioned earlier. For better or for worse, the ATS approach is easily
> administered and does not impact any protocol layers outside of its
> own. I think of it as ARP for IB.
> 
> Tom.
> _______________________________________________

But the ATS will not solve the problem of "many to one".
What will the nfs module will do if the the result from the ATS will be 
a list of "IP's" which only one of them is has permission to the nfs ?
ATS cant tell you who is the source IP.

 Itamar 



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