[openib-general] IPoIB multicast group creation
    Roland Dreier 
    rdreier at cisco.com
       
    Tue Mar  7 17:20:50 PST 2006
    
    
  
    Sean> When ipoib joins a multicast group, it provides a pkey as
    Sean> part of the request. Is this required for ipoib?
It's required to create the MCG.  For non-create joins, I guess it's
not needed but I don't think it hurts.  I don't think it's an IPoIB
requirement really, and I don't remember why I wrote the code that
way, but I don't think it hurts either.
 - R.
    
    
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