[ofa-general] Receiving Unknown packets at regular interval

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 20:12 +0300, Yevgeny Kliteynik wrote:
> 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...

Yes, that makes sense to me. As this is an incoming response, maybe this
node is running the SM as well as this application.

-- Hal

> -- 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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