[openib-general] Hello and a basic question

[bill at strahm.net]

The IETF Working Group that is specifying IP over IB is the IP over IB
Working Group (IPoIB)
http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/ipoib-charter.html

That said it became very easy to just call the interface IP over IB.  I
personally don't like the name - but I can live with it.  Kinda like
calling eth0 interfaces IP over Ethernet interfaces.  In reality I
would just prefer to call it the IB interface.  There is a rather long
history in the IETF of creating IP over Foo Working Groups (IPoCDN,
IPO,  IPDVB, IPRPR) where foo is your favorite layer 2 protocol.

This is my view of what has happened historically - whether this matches
anyone elses opinion is left up to the reader.

Bill

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [openib-general] Hello and a basic question
> From: "Mark Galecki" <mgalecki at sbs.com>
> Date: Wed, October 20, 2004 3:08 pm
> To: "'openib-general at openib.org'" <openib-general at openib.org>
>
> Hello,  I am new to IB in Linux, and I have a basic naming question (for
> which I tried to find an answer on the Web but failed because I guess it is
> too basic).
>
> Why is IP-over-IB named IP-over-IB?  From what I can understand, this is
> really a software layer, that connects the protocol layer (IP and ARP) to
> the IB device driver.  So, it should be called something like
> Protocol-to-IB, not IP-over-IB.
>
> Either my understanding is wrong, in which case please briefly explain why,
> or "Protocol-to-IB" is too complicated and unclear a name - then please
> confirm that was the reason why such a name was not chosen.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Mark Galeck
>
>
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