[openib-general] [RFC] IB address translation using ARP

Hal Rosenstock halr at voltaire.com
Thu Sep 29 11:16:17 PDT 2005


On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 12:57, Sean Hefty wrote:
> Hal Rosenstock wrote:
> >>>> Would it require global routing,
> >>>
> >>>Yes.
> >>
> >>If it requires global routing of IB, then I think that we should defer it until 
> >>global routing is available.  At least this was my original thinking.
> > 
> > 
> > I was referring to IP not IB routing.
> 
> If we restrict IB to a single subnet, do we need to worry about IP routing?  My 
> assumption was no.  Is this an invalid assumption?

I think so. There is nothing that precludes having multiple IPoIB
subnets on the same IB subnet.

-- Hal




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