Hal Rosenstock wrote: > On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 7:31 AM, Eli Dorfman <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Hal Rosenstock <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 6:32 AM, Eli Dorfman <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 4:57 PM, Hal Rosenstock <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>>> On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 6:24 AM, Slava Strebkov <[email protected]> >>>>> wrote: >>>>>> In addition to the original proposal we suggest allocating special MLID >>>>>> for the following MGIDs: >>>>>> 1. FF12401bxxxx000000000000FFFFFFFF - All Nodes >>>>>> 2. FF12401bxxxx00000000000000000001 - All hosts >>>>>> 3. FF12401bffff0000000000000000004d - all Gateways >>>>>> 4. FF12401bxxxx00000000000000000002 - all routers >>>>>> 5. FF12601bABCD000000000001ffxxxxxx - IPv6 SNM >>>>> It turns out that collapsing multicast groups across PKeys on a single >>>>> MLID may not be such a good idea unless partition enforcement >>>>> enforcement by switches is disabled. There should be different modes >>>>> of collapsing based on this based on whether this is enabled or not. >>>> The idea is to allocate a different MLID per each of the above special >>>> MGIDs. >>> So one MLID per PKey in the MGID ? >> yes >> >>> What's the difference between xxxx's and ABCD in the syntax above ? >> none. should be the same. > > Doesn't the xxxxxx for IPv6 mean mask these nibbles though ?
For IPv6 the ABCD is the pkey and xxxxxx is the mask To make it the same as IPv4 groups we can use the following notation (mmmmmm=mask and xxxx=pkey) FF12601bxxxx000000000001ffmmmmmm _______________________________________________ general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
