Re: [openib-general] [ANNOUNCE] Contribute RDS (ReliableDatagramSockets) to OpenIB

2005-11-10 Thread Rick Frank
Yes, this is the case. - Original Message - From: "Caitlin Bestler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 1:48 PM Subject: RE: [openib-general] [ANNOUNCE] Contribute RDS (ReliableDatagramSockets) to OpenIB Mike Krause wrote in response to Greg Lindahl: If

Re: [openib-general] [ANNOUNCE] Contribute RDS(ReliableDatagramSockets) to OpenIB

2005-11-09 Thread Rick Frank
Yes, the application is responsible for detecting lost msgs at the application level - the transport can not do this.   RDS does not guarantee that a message has been delivered to the application - just that once the transport has accepted a msg it will deliver the msg to the remote node in o

Re: [openib-general] [ANNOUNCE] Contribute RDS(ReliableDatagramSockets) to OpenIB

2005-11-04 Thread Rick Frank
- From: "Bob Woodruff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Ranjit Pandit'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Rick Frank" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 6:58 PM Subject: RE: [openib-general] [ANNOUNCE] Contribute RDS(ReliableDat

Re: [openib-general] [ANNOUNCE] Contribute RDS(ReliableDatagramSockets) to OpenIB

2005-11-04 Thread Rick Frank
SCTP is connection based - we have many dependencies on our connectionless datagram model. - Original Message - From: "Bob Woodruff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Rimmer, Todd'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Caitlin Bestler" <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [openib-general] [ANNOUNCE] Contribute RDS (ReliableDatagramSockets) to OpenIB

2005-11-04 Thread Rick Frank
No we do not use TCP sockets - we use to many connections for this 100k+. - Original Message - From: "Bob Woodruff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Rick Frank'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Ranjit Pandit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Grant Grun

Re: [openib-general] [ANNOUNCE] Contribute RDS (Reliable DatagramSockets) to OpenIB

2005-11-03 Thread Rick Frank
RDS is UDP protocol with reliability added - it remains connectionless from the consumer perspective. SDP is connection based - at least currently. - Original Message - From: "Sean Hefty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Grant Grundler" <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [openib-general] [ANNOUNCE] Contribute RDS (Reliable DatagramSockets) to OpenIB

2005-11-03 Thread Rick Frank
It is very important to Oracle for RDS to be available in OpenIB in as many Linux distributions as possible. Is this going to happen and in what timeframe / what are the plans for Linux distributions to pick up OpenIB with RDS support ? How can we (Oracle) help ? - Original Message -

Re: [openib-general] [ANNOUNCE] Contribute RDS (Reliable DatagramSockets) to OpenIB

2005-11-03 Thread Rick Frank
It is very important to Oracle for RDS to be available in OpenIB in as many Linux distributions as possible. Is this going to happen and in what timeframe / what are the plans for Linux distributions to pick up OpenIB with RDS support ? How can we (Oracle) help ? - Original Message

[openib-general] Managing SRP devices via iSCSI ?

2005-09-19 Thread Rick Frank
One key argument I've heard in favor of iSER vs SRP is that iSCSI (top level iSER driver) has a very strong management infrastructure - as it is fairly mature.However, iSER seems to be just gaining steam in terms of direct attached storage supporting this protocol .vs. SRP.Would it not be p