> -----Original Message----- > From: Roland Dreier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 9:50 PM > To: Sean Hefty > Cc: Yaron Haviv; Openib > Subject: Re: [openib-general] [RFC] IB address translation using ARP > > I think the usage model is the following: you have some magic device > that has an IB port on one side and "something else" on the other > side. Think of something like a gateway that talks SDP on the IB side > and TCP/IP on the other side. >
Also applicable to two IB ports, e.g. forwarding SDP traffic from one IB partition to SDP on another partition (may even be the same port with two P_Keys), and doing some load-balancing or traffic management in between, overall there are many use cases for that. Yaron _______________________________________________ openib-general mailing list openib-general@openib.org http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general