[openib-general] IPoIB Loading and Starting

[bill at strahm.net]

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: RE: [openib-general] IPoIB Loading and Starting
> From: "Hal Rosenstock" <halr at voltaire.com>
> Date: Wed, September 29, 2004 10:40 am
> To: bill at strahm.net
> Cc: "Roland Dreier" <roland at topspin.com>, openib-general at openib.org
>
> On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 13:06, bill at strahm.net wrote:
> > This may have been answered by now,
> >
> > But in the process of creating the broadcast group there are quite a few
> > parameters that are better off not being left to the end client (MTU
> > being a big one)
> >
> > I can see this service record returning all of the needed parameters,
> > therfor letting the central administrator have a central point of
> > control
>
> As SA ServiceRecords do not contain MTU or other parameters, there would
> need to be a standard encoding into the ServiceData fields for this.
> There would also likely need to be a service naming scheme for
> identifying which service record to find.
>
> -- Hal

And that is what I would expect an IETF ID to specify - what the
contents of the Service Record are (and how they map into the IPoIB
Encap draft) - how to search for them correctly so that everyone can
get the same answer, and how an administrator would setup an IPoIB
subnet using the SA.

Bill