[openib-general] RDMA connection and address translation API

[Caitlin Bestler]

Not if the host connects two disjoint networks and does not route
between them. Such a host should/may be configured to reject any
packet that arrives with a destination address that does not match
the expected destination address for the port it arrives upon. 

One of the things that iWARP vendors strive for is to ensure that
all such existing filtring/safety rules on accepting connections
are left 100% intact.

-----Original Message-----
From: openib-general-bounces at openib.org
[mailto:openib-general-bounces at openib.org] On Behalf Of Christoph Hellwig
Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 2:00 PM
To: Caitlin Bestler
Cc: openib-general at openib.org
Subject: Re: [openib-general] RDMA connection and address translation API

On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 11:14:08AM -0700, Caitlin Bestler wrote:
> The concensus when this issue was debated in the DAT Collaborative was 
> that there was no transport neutral way to specify a set of addresses 
> to listen on other than "all addresses supported by this device".

That doesn't make any sense at all for iWarp as that uses IP addressing which
in Linux is host-, not device-based.

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