Are there any tools available for a network administrator to assign a
GID? Does OpenSM provider this capability?
On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, Caitlin Bestler wrote:
Site-local GIDs are just as manageable as site-local IPv6 addresses.
In fact they look just like them to /etc/hosts, NIS, DNS, etc.
The only real work required of the local network administrator(s)
is that they assign *different* site-local network IDs for IPv6 and IB.
There are 64K total available, so I doubt anyone is going to run out
of available network IDs.
On 6/28/05, James Lentini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
That would require systems to be configured using IB addresses. Can
that be made feasible in non-trivial configurations?
For example, how could name resolution be made scalable? If you want
to resolve a hostname like foo.bar.com to an IB GID, then information
about IB GIDs needs to added to the various name resolution systems
(/etc/hosts, NIS, DNS,...). Adding GIDs to these databases doesn't
seem like a prudent thing to do. GIDs come in different flavors
(adapter specific and subnet manager assigned) none of which appear to
be good candidates for large scale management.
On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
hch> On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 03:24:35PM -0400, James Lentini wrote:
hch> >
hch> > I'd like to summarize the discussion we've been having around
hch> > addressing and start a new email thread with a more appropriate title.
hch> >
hch> > First off, here is there requirement we are trying to satisfy:
hch> >
hch> > kDAPL consumers use an Internet Protocol (IP) addresses to
hch> > identify remote nodes in an interoperable way.
hch>
hch> I don't think that does belong into the kernel. It's fine to do that in
hch> userspace if you want.
hch>
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