[ofa-general] [PATCH] rds: use separate ports for TCP and IB
Roland Dreier
rdreier at cisco.com
Thu May 29 16:11:09 PDT 2008
> Currently, RDS will bind to a single port during bring up of both the IB and TCP
> sub-modules. This binding of 2 different processes to a single port causes a
> port space collision to devices which are aware of both (e.g., iWARP). This
> prevents iWARP devices from working with RDS if both TCP and IB are compiled in.
Of course nothing prevents another hapless application from trying to
use port 18635 with TCP...
Not really much we can do about the general port space collision problem
unless and until the network stack guys are willing to cooperate though.
- R.
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