[openib-general] IP addressing on InfiniBand networks

Roland Dreier rolandd at cisco.com
Tue Jun 28 15:57:10 PDT 2005


    James> I found this limitation in section 3.3 of the "IP over
    James> InfiniBand(IPoIB) Architecture" draft (April, 2004 version,
    James> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ipoib-architecture-04.txt)

    James>          Until the above conditions are met it is not
    James> possible to implement IPoIB subnets that span IB
    James> subnets. The IPoIB standards have however been defined with
    James> this possibility in mind.

    James> Am I looking at an old version of the spec?

Those conditions are pretty much things that would have to be fixed
for it to be possible to communicate between IB subnets at all.

 - R.



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