[openib-general] mapping between IP address and device name

[Roland Dreier]

    Hal> The first level of IB trust in terms of the SA (authenticaing
    Hal> the requestor) is restrictions based on access
    Hal> (partitioning). This is true for a number of SA attributes
    Hal> which is more than (just) ServiceRecords.

Right, but at least for now the SA has no way of checking the IP
address in a request to decide whether or not it should allow creating
an ATS record.

    Hal> But we do trust the kernel, right ?

No, an NFS server can't trust anything coming from a remote client.

 - R.