[openib-general] IPoIB broadcast MC group membership

Greg Lindahl lindahl at pathscale.com
Tue Feb 21 21:52:54 PST 2006


On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 08:17:02PM -0800, Fabian Tillier wrote:

> The node joining or creating the multicast group doesn't need to
> specify the rate - the SA can figure out the rate to use based on the
> requestor (for creation), or validate that the requestor supports the
> existing group's rate (for joining).

Um, but that gets back to my point: I want 1X, 4X SDR, and 4X DDR
nodes running IPoIB to share a multicast group. Are you saying this
can be done by making the group a 1X group? Or that it's impossible
to have such a group? Or that everyone would have to drop to 1X to
make such a group?

-- greg




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