[openib-general] IB Address Translation service

[Yaron Haviv]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Duffy [mailto:tduffy at sun.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 1:02 AM
> To: Yaron Haviv
> Cc: openib-general at openib.org
> Subject: RE: [openib-general] IB Address Translation service
> 
> [ putting back on list ]
> 
> On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 00:29 +0200, Yaron Haviv wrote:
> > Did you try RARP with IPoIB ?
> 
> I have not.
> 
> > I thought that there is some issue that it doesn't work
> 
> Currently, the rarpd only works with ethernet, but I don't see why
this
> couldn't be fixed.
> 

Tom, IPoIB HW Address consists of GID+QPN+.. 
In order to issue a RARP I believe you should supply the full HW address
to get the IP address back, how would you know the remote IPoIB QPN ? or
can you do it without a QPN ?

Yaron