[openib-general] IPoIB Loading and Starting

Yaron Haviv yaronh at voltaire.com
Mon Sep 27 08:14:45 PDT 2004


> 
> There is a small issue of how to name the interfaces to solve 
> but we should be able to work that out.
> 

We can use the Linux VLAN convention of:  IF_name.VLAN_tag
And do for e.g. ipoib0.P_Key_value 
This way P_Key's can look familiar to IT people working with VLAN's 
And we also don't need a special place to store the P_Key value (since
its part of the IF name)

Yaron



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