[openib-general] RDMA connection and address translation API

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 09:26:42AM -0700, Roland Dreier wrote:
>     Tom> I think I understand, but the purpose of specifying the IP
>     Tom> address in the listen is not to filter incoming connect
>     Tom> requests, but rather to determine which devices I listen
>     Tom> on. I think this works for the IB case as well. So the
>     Tom> utility of the IP address specified in the listen is only to
>     Tom> determine which devices the sid is created on. Does this make
>     Tom> sense or am I missing something?
> 
> Well, that's not what I would expect.  Suppose I have a device
> configured with local addresses 192.168.11.12 and 192.168.98.99 and I

You never configure a device with local addresses.  IP addresses are
always a per-host attribute in Linux.