[openib-general] IB Address Translation service

[Peter Kjellström]

On Friday 04 March 2005 22.06, Talpey, Thomas wrote:
> At 02:58 PM 3/4/2005, Tom Duffy wrote:
> >In any event, I think being able to plop an IB network in an Ethernet
> >world will require things like RARP to work.  If there is no spec now,
> >it should be written.
>
> I can't remember the last time I saw a machine RARP. Well, maybe I do
> but it was like 1980-something. Since DHCP, I don't think there's a
> reason for hosts to do it.

If my memory servers me righ clustermatic uses rarp instead of dhcp since it's 
much lighter and simpler. I can imagine that if you have to code something 
that's not in a full OS, implementing a rarp based find-my-ip function will 
seem alot more fun than implementing a dhcp-client (or porting one...).

/Peter

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