[openib-general][RFC]: CMA IB implementation

Sean Hefty mshefty at ichips.intel.com
Thu Sep 29 09:09:10 PDT 2005


Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> BTW, one idea of mine that some people apparently were interested in,
> is adding an option to do ARP resolution on the passive side after REQ is
> received, as a weak security measure.
> 
> Is there still interest in that?

I don't think that there's anything to restrict this.  The ULP (CMA in this 
case?) could do this using the address translation API before processing a REQ. 
  Assuming that address translation were used on the remote side before sending 
the REQ, the IP addresses are likely to be in the ARP cache already.

- Sean



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