[openib-general][PATCH] local device search with sourceaddresswildcard

Sean Hefty mshefty at ichips.intel.com
Fri Nov 4 10:54:26 PST 2005


Tom Tucker wrote:
> Well.... It won't necessarily fail will it? If you specified the source
> address as another port on the same machine, but NOT the one with
> connectivity to the remote peer, the routine will succeed, but the
> results are not what you expect...and you will fail further down the
> line (looking up the path record). This is one of the "bizarre" failures
> I was originally referring to. 

If a source address is NOT specified, then I don't think that there's any issue.

If a source address is specified, a failure can occur during 
rdma_resolve_route() with an error that the source and destination addresses are 
not reachable.  This seems reasonable to me.

- Sean



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