[openib-general] RDMA connection and address translation API

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 02:22:31PM -0700, Caitlin Bestler wrote:
> 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.

While you can configure a Linux system to reject such request through
a bunch of crude hacks, the default and fully RFC compliant behaviour
is to always reply to ARP requests for any IP address assigned to the
system.  RDMA CM implementations must work the same.