[openib-general] IB Address Translation service

[Yaron Haviv]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: openib-general-bounces at openib.org [mailto:openib-general-
> bounces at openib.org] On Behalf Of Paul Baxter
> Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 9:32 PM
> To: openib-general at openib.org
> Subject: Re: [openib-general] IB Address Translation service
> 
> Having now just read Yaron's reply, I am even more convinced that this
is
> the right way to go albeit I can't comment on the API etc (Could
someone
> explain the differences in using ARP and ATS. )

Paul,

ATS (Address Resolution Service) is based on each node registering a
service record in the SM/SA with GID&P_Key=IP address.
When you want to map an IP address to IB address it issues an SA query
to the SM/SA with an IP that results in GID+P_Key values than can be
used by the ULP.

ATS is a standard defined by DAT and recently also by ICSC.

As I mentioned in the IP to GID API you can specify if to resolve based
on the IP infrastructure (like the one Libor described), or based on
ATS, or Default (first try IP/ARP, than ATS).

And as you mentioned there is value to have the same API for different
resolution mechanisms, the SDP code can be altered in future to ride
over the proposed API, so it can be used without TCP/IP.

Yaron