[ofa-general] uDAPL Question

[Caitlin Bestler]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: general-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org 
> [mailto:general-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org] On Behalf Of Don Kerr
> Sent: Monday, July 09, 2007 8:04 AM
> To: Roland Dreier
> Cc: general
> Subject: Re: [ofa-general] uDAPL Question
> 
> Sorry. I was wrongly lumping port and HCA together.
> 
> 2 HCA cards each with 2 ports but only one port on one card 
> is operational and by that I mean can be pinged or seen as 
> "UP" when you run ifconfig. But both are still listed in the dat.conf.
> 
> -DON
> 
The DAT Registry allows for a provider to deregister itself, but
there are no guidelines as to when it should do so for indefinite
but non-permanent unavailabiilty. I have always presumed that Host
OS standards for temporarily unavailable devices should be applied.