[openib-general] TCP/IP connection service over IB

[Tom Tucker]

Sean:

I'm thinking that for iWARP, there won't be anything in the Private Data
at all except consumer private data. Is that your expectation?

On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 12:44 -0700, Sean Hefty wrote:
> James Lentini wrote:
> > Ok. I assume that your 1 byte of version information is broken into 2 
> > 4-bit pieces, one for the protocol version and one for the IP version.
> 
> That is correct.
> 
> > What about making the src and dst ip fields variable length based on 
> > the IP version (4 bytes for IPv4 and 16 bytes for IPv6). 
> > 
> > That would provide more private data for IPv4 networks at the expense 
> > of a variable sized header and all the complexity it entails.
> 
> That's a possibility that wouldn't add that much complexity.  See my other 
> message for yet another approach though.  I'm just not sure that it helps an app 
> much to have different private data sizes based on the address size, unless the 
> app is written specifically for IPv4.
> 
> - Sean
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