[ofa-general] Re: [PATCH] saquery: --smkey command line option

Sasha Khapyorsky sashak at voltaire.com
Fri May 23 03:25:57 PDT 2008


On 15:47 Thu 22 May     , Ira Weiny wrote:
> I guess my question is "does saquery need this to talk to the SA?"
> 
> I am assuming the answer is "yes".
> 
> I noticed this in the spec section 14.4.7 page 890:
> 
>    "The SM Key used for SM authentication is independent of the SM Key in the
>    SA header used for SA authentication."
> 
> Does this mean there could be 2 SM_Key values in use?

At least I see nothing in the spec against this. Also there is stated
explicitly that validity for non-zero values is vendor-defined.

Sasha



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