[ofa-general] Receiving Unknown packets at regular interval

[Yevgeny Kliteynik]

Hal Rosenstock wrote:
> Sumit,
> On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 21:38 +0530, Sumit Gaur wrote:
> 
>> Hi Hal,
>> It is true that packets received are looks like proper response but as I 
>> mentioned before they content TID that I have never send to OFED and  
>> this  cause the problem. Why OFED is sending these extra packets  Is the 
>> matter to investigate.
> 
> The received packet is SM class attribute ID 4352 which is non IBA
> standard and AFAIK OFED does not send so it likely comes from some non
> OFED software.

Just a thought:
Decimal 4352 is 0x1100. With reverted endian we get 0x0011,
which is NodeInfo, that SM sends while sweeping the subnet,
which comes at regular interval.

As I said, just a thought...

-- Yevgeny

> As far as why it is being received, it is a response to a class your
> application is subscribed to so it passes it through.
> 
> As to what is going on, some sort of packet trace would be needed.
> 
> -- Hal
> 
>> sumit
>> sumit
> 
> 
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