Sean: I'm thinking that for iWARP, there won't be anything in the Private Data at all except consumer private data. Is that your expectation?
On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 12:44 -0700, Sean Hefty wrote: > James Lentini wrote: > > Ok. I assume that your 1 byte of version information is broken into 2 > > 4-bit pieces, one for the protocol version and one for the IP version. > > That is correct. > > > What about making the src and dst ip fields variable length based on > > the IP version (4 bytes for IPv4 and 16 bytes for IPv6). > > > > That would provide more private data for IPv4 networks at the expense > > of a variable sized header and all the complexity it entails. > > That's a possibility that wouldn't add that much complexity. See my other > message for yet another approach though. I'm just not sure that it helps an > app > much to have different private data sizes based on the address size, unless > the > app is written specifically for IPv4. > > - Sean > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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