[ofa-general] Re: Standard RDS port number

[Olaf Kirch]

Hi Yevgeny,

On Sunday 27 January 2008 11:17, Yevgeny Kliteynik wrote:
> I noticed the following in the rds.h:
> 
> 	/*
> 	 * XXX randomly chosen, but at least seems to be unused:
> 	 * #               18464-18768 Unassigned
> 	 * We should do better.  We want a reserved port to discourage unpriv'ed
> 	 * userspace from listening.
> 	 *
> 	 * port 18633 was the version that had ack frames on the wire.
> 	 */
> 	#define RDS_PORT        18634
> 
> I'm using this port number to recognize RDS
> connection in QoS manager (OpenSM).
> 
> How 'solid' is this RDS_PORT definition?
> Will it be standardized somehow?
> Do you have some plans to change it?

There are no plans to change the port number right now. In fact, the
TCP support is currently rather instable, so that we disabled it for now.

Olaf
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