[ofa-general] mapping IP addresses to GIDs across IP subnets

[Hal Rosenstock]

Sean,

On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 15:46 -0700, Sean Hefty wrote:
> I have a need to start looking at possible ways to map IP address to GIDs when
> crossing IP (and IB) subnets.  This would be in addition to or replace the ARP
> use by the rdma_cm.  

Is this in the context of IB routers and/or RDMA gateways, or something
else ?

-- Hal

> Possibilities include:
> 
> * Use some standard address mapping protocol that I'm not aware of.
> * Use global IB service resolution.
> * Define/extend an address resolution protocol that operates over IP.
> * Define/extend an address resolution protocol that operates over UDP.
> 
> I'm hoping that someone has a wonderfully brilliant idea for this that would
> take about 1 day to implement.  :)
> 
> - Sean
> 
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