[ofa-general] Port space sharing in RDS

[Steve Wise]

Jon Mason wrote:
> On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 03:21:19PM +0200, Olaf Kirch wrote:
>   
>> On Thursday 29 May 2008 00:55:49 Jon Mason wrote:
>>     
>>> During RDS init, rds_ib_init and rds_tcp_init will both individually bind to the
>>> RDS port for all IP addresses.  Unfortunately, that will not work for iWARP for
>>> 2 major reasons.
>>>       
>> I looked at the code, and I think it is possible to bind to each
>> interface address separately instead of binding to INADDR_ANY once.
>> It's a bit of extra work, but it would take care of the conflict.
>>
>> For instance, in the IB case, the binding code could move to
>> rds_ib_add_one, and we'd bind to each address associated with the interface -
>> the problem there being of course that we're currently not watching for
>> address changes.
>>     
>
> Yes, that was my original suggestion (though worded poorly).  If that way is prefered,
> I can do it.
>
>   
Note that if you do bind to specific addresses, then you need to deal 
with multiple addresses bound to the same interface...

> Thanks,
> Jon
>
>   
>> Olaf
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