[ofa-general] Multicast traffic generates Bad P_Key trap in SM when working in partial member setup

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 15:58 +0300, Yevgeny Kliteynik wrote:
> AFAIK, by default, OpenSM should
> configure pkeys on switch ports that are connected to these HCAs,
> so that partial member wouldn't get packet from another partial
> member.

In one sense, this is a workaround. It still wastes the network
bandwidth as it has to get all the way to the egress switch before
dropping.

So it's going to come down to how this scenario is decided to be dealt
with in the spec and then in the implementations.

-- Hal