[openib-general] Re: Re: port_num

[James Lentini]

On Thu, 16 Mar 2006, Steve Wise wrote:

swise> Just to clarify:  Tom is talking about iWARP devices here that support
swise> the native stack -and- the rdma stack with the same offload device.  For
swise> IB devices, the above "collision" doesn't matter because IB really
swise> doesn't use the ip addresses at all after the RC is setup.  AND, the
swise> native stack TCP support in IB (IPoIB) uses a different QP and service
swise> type (UD). So there's no problem with said collision.  

If there is a fix for the iWARP collision problem, wouldn't there be 
an analogous fix for IB? Why wouldn't we make that fix?