[openib-general] Re: Re: port_num

[Steve Wise]

On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 10:45 -0500, James Lentini wrote:
> 
> 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?

Perhaps.  To be honest, I have followed the SDP/IB side of this thread
enough...  I just wanted to make a point that iwarp devices have a
different issue.  

Steve.