[ofw] port RDS to OFW - request for input...

Sean Hefty sean.hefty at intel.com
Thu Jul 23 12:20:09 PDT 2009


>For remote IP to local IP, you really want to go through the OS.  You also need
>remote IP to remote Ethernet MAC.  The OS can give you both relatively easily
>starting in Windows Vista/Server 2008 for kernel clients.

I agree that we want to go through the OS.  Is there a way for IPoIB to get this
data, since it's in the network stack?

>I would suggest that any kernel WinVerbs driver would be targeted at Server
>2008 and beyond, so that you don't have to jump through hoops.  Then you can
>create backports if possible/needed to older OS versions.

Unless we don't want to support the older OS versions, I'd rather just
create/maintain one solution, unless there's a compelling reason to have both.

- Sean 




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