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

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 13:25 +0300, Sasha Khapyorsky wrote:
> 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. 

Right; it is more a use case/compromise of trust issue and the
implications of that.

-- Hal

> Also there is stated
> explicitly that validity for non-zero values is vendor-defined.
> 
> Sasha