[openib-general] IB Address Translation service

[David M. Brean]

Tom Duffy wrote:

>On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 16:06 -0500, Talpey, Thomas wrote:
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>>At 02:58 PM 3/4/2005, Tom Duffy wrote:
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>>>In any event, I think being able to plop an IB network in an Ethernet
>>>world will require things like RARP to work.  If there is no spec now,
>>>it should be written.
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>>I can't remember the last time I saw a machine RARP. Well, maybe I do
>>but it was like 1980-something. Since DHCP, I don't think there's a
>>reason for hosts to do it.
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>I guess Sun is stuck in the 80's -- big hair and new age music.  All the
>sparc openboot systems rarp/bootp to network start.
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And DHCP, too.

-David

>-tduffy
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