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

[Yaron Haviv]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roland Dreier [mailto:rolandd at cisco.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 9:50 PM
> To: Sean Hefty
> Cc: Yaron Haviv; Openib
> Subject: Re: [openib-general] [RFC] IB address translation using ARP
> 
> I think the usage model is the following: you have some magic device
> that has an IB port on one side and "something else" on the other
> side.  Think of something like a gateway that talks SDP on the IB side
> and TCP/IP on the other side.
> 

Also applicable to two IB ports, e.g. forwarding SDP traffic from one IB
partition to SDP on another partition (may even be the same port with
two P_Keys), and doing some load-balancing or traffic management in
between, overall there are many use cases for that. 

Yaron