[ofw] RE: [RFC] Remove path query from IPoIB

Hefty, Sean sean.hefty at intel.com
Mon Aug 11 11:45:56 PDT 2008


>Packets from Linux to Windows will be IP, so will do the address resolution and
>the endpoint will be created based on those packets, with the GRH.  Further
>unicast traffic without a GRH would be fine.

An ARP response from Linux will not contain a GRH.  Does Windows extract the necessary information out of the ARP response packet, rather than directly from the GRH?  If so, I'm as happy as I'm going to be about this.  :)

- Sean



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