[openib-general] Re: RMPP Message Format Errors

[Eitan Zahavi]

Hal Rosenstock wrote:
> Hi again Eitan,
>  
> 
>>The transparency to the RMPP is an RMPP implementation choice.
>>Having incorrect paylen in the first segment is a compliancy violation.
>>It should be either 0 or correct value.
> 
>  
> Yes, is that what is going on ? I haven't had a chance to look at the GIF you sent
> and analyze it.
Yes that is exactly what I have provided in the first mail:
>  
> 
>>But how would the SA or SA Client that gets an assembled MAD be
>>able to tell the number of records?
> 
>  
> It gets a "real" received length provided it supplies a buffer large enough.
So I guess the "real receive length" is truncated to the last data 
record even if the packet sent was 256 bytes?
> 
>>Also, does the current implementation let the client do the assembly?
>  
> No.
Good. I hoped this is the case.
> 
>>Anyway, the last segment paylen was incorrect too.
>  
> OK. That's another thing I'll look at. 
The first mail I sent had all the analysis in it with exact peylen 
values for first and second segments.
>  
> -- Hal