> > or management application. > > Agreed, but _only_ when talking to the hardware. Other MAD interfaces are > IB compatible.
Maybe this is what Ira is thinking, and just not explaining very well. But it makes sense to me to use management specific fields/attributes/flags for the *management* pieces, rather than using the link and/or transport layer protocols as a proxy. Management related code should really branch based on that. The introduction of new OPA link and transport protocols, and fixing what's there for iWarp, can then be addressed separately. I don't have any thoughts for what the management specific fields/attribute/flags should be -- whether new fields are added to the device attributes, a management flag is defined, etc.
