Hal> One more thing: This is analagous to the (ICMP) ping server
    Hal> built into the kernel.

Sort of, except it's not part of the IB spec.  ICMP and in particular
ICMP echo support is a "MUST" for any RFC-compliant IP implementation.

One other thought just occurred to me -- what advantages does this
vendor-specific ping MAD have over a LID-routed NodeDescription get query?

 - R.
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