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

Sean Hefty sean.hefty at intel.com
Thu Jul 23 14:54:48 PDT 2009


>Does the notation: "remote IP -> local IP, remote GID" means, I want to
>connect to the remote IP x.x.x.x what is it's gid and what is the local
>interface?

Yes

>I guess that if it is we can add this functionality to ipoib. The way to
>do it is simple:
>Send an arp packet to all interfaces and wait for response.

This is basically how it is implemented on Linux, except I think that the local
IP is determined first by looking at the neighbor routing tables.

>Is this better than relaying on a user mode service to get that
>information? Hard to tell.

I've never tried to get a kernel client to communicate with a user mode service,
so I'm not sure either.




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