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

[Tom Tucker]

Ok, so lets assume that all the other stuff is background noise about
error codes...

If you specify a 0 as a source address, won't the private data contain
the destination address as the source address, or did I miss something?

On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 10:54 -0800, Sean Hefty wrote:
> 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