[openib-general] Re: [PATCH] ib_addr: local/loopback address handling

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

Quoting r. Sean Hefty <mshefty at ichips.intel.com>:
> After some testing, this appears to work the way I expected anyway.
> 
> My test system has a local IP address of 192.168.0.102.
> 
> I could connect from 127.0.0.1 to 127.0.0.1, 192.168.0.102 to 127.0.0.1, 
> and 127.0.0.1 to 192.168.0.102.  I could not connect between 127.0.0.1 to 
> 192.168.0.101, which is my other test system.
> 
> I believe that this does carry 127.0.0.1 in the connection messages, since 
> that's the address that we're bound to.

You mean with sockets or with CMA?

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Michael S. Tsirkin
Staff Engineer, Mellanox Technologies