[openib-general] Re: [swg] Re: private data...

Roland Dreier rolandd at cisco.com
Thu Oct 20 11:09:24 PDT 2005


    Fab> I would personally rather see a reserved bit get used.
    Fab> Imagine a system that has two protocols installed that use IP
    Fab> addressing.  That system might want to have different apps
    Fab> listening on the same port number over both, even though the
    Fab> protocols are different.

I disagree.  The port number is part of an IP address, and it doesn't
make sense to have two different services listening to the same port.
You can't do it over TCP or iWARP, and I don't see any reason for IB
to support this.

 - R.



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