[openib-general] iwarp: whats a pkey?

Steve Wise swise at opengridcomputing.com
Thu Jan 26 08:23:01 PST 2006


On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 08:06 -0800, Roland Dreier wrote:
>     Steve> iwarp/ib experts: Should a pkey be mapped to a vlan id for
>     Steve> iwarp openib devices?
> 
> No, I think trying to create a mapping is a bad idea.  The semantics
> of VLANs and IB partitions are sufficiently different that it's
> probably better to treat each concept natively.
> 
>  - R.

Roland, can you expand on this some?  




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