<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10 Oct 2005 10:45:59 -0400, <b class="gmail_sendername">Hal Rosenstock</b> <<a href="mailto:halr@voltaire.com">halr@voltaire.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Sun, 2005-10-09 at 10:19, Sean Hefty wrote:<br>> >I think iWARP can be on top of TCP or SCTP. But why wouldn't it care ?<br>><br>> I'm referring to the case that iWarp is running over TCP. I know that it can
<br>> run over SCTP, but I'm not familiar with the details of that protocol. With<br>> TCP, this is an end-to-end connection, so layering iWarp over it, only the<br>> endpoints need to deal with it. I believe the same is true for SCTP.
<br><br>Yes, SCTP is similar in those regards.<br><br>> >Doesn't a routing decision still need to be made at the IP layer ?<br>><br>> Routing of the IP packets is done at the IP layer, but I don't see how this
<br>> affects iWarp.<br><br>It does under the "covers", those covers being IP routing.<br><br>> >Doesn't the IP next hop need to be determined (e.g. gateway when the<br>> >destination is off the local IP subnet) ? Is there something that
<br>> >precludes iWARP from working across IP subnets ?<br>><br>> I can't think of anything that would preclude iWarp from working<br>> across subnets.<br><br>Doesn't the IP next hop need determining in that case ? Why is that not
<br>relevant ? I don't think the iWARP connection is end to end in all<br>cases.</blockquote><div><br>
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Of course it's end to end. It's just that only the end points understand<br>
that it is an iWARP connection.<br>
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Or more properly, the underlying transport (or "LLP") connections <br>
are end to end, but the iWARP semantics exist only in the RDMA<br>
endpoints.<br>
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That is why iWARP works across multiple subnets. We've actually<br>
done true worldwide connections. The exisitng IP network carries<br>
the iWARP traffic because it is indeed just TCP traffic to the<br>
intermediate network.<br>
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