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

[Talpey, Thomas]

At 03:10 AM 6/26/2005, Itamar Rabenstein wrote:
>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.

The NFS server exports will function just fine in such a case.
This is no different from any other multihomed client, and
/etc/exports can be configured appropriately.

What wouldn't be useful would be to use MAC addresses (GIDs)
for mounting, exports, etc. Can you imagine administering a network
where hardware addresses were the only naming? No sysadmin
would even entertain such an idea.

Tom.