[ofa-general] Re: ibsim parsing question

Sasha Khapyorsky sashak at voltaire.com
Tue May 13 17:15:45 PDT 2008


On 13:56 Tue 13 May     , Hal Rosenstock wrote:
> > 
> > That is correct, but we know that ibsim parser doesn't parse
> > NodeDescription in those (port related) lines, so in such "worst" cases
> > when 's=' and/or 'w=' strings are used in NodeDescription this could be
> > just filtered out from ibnetdiscovery file.
> 
> That's why I termed this approach a workaround and it does limit the
> NodeDescription in ways not limited by the IBA spec.

No, it does not limit NodeDescription at all - it is *only* file format
limitation (remove NodeDescription from port related lines in the file
and we are done).

> Is this worth mentioning in the README or some other doc for ibsim ?

Looks like overkill for me.

Sasha



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