Re: [openib-general] IB Address Translation service

2005-04-05 Thread Hal Rosenstock
Reviving an old thread... On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 10:22, David M. Brean wrote: There is an I-D for DHCP on IB. IPoIB defines a broadcast address and DHCP (and ARP) on IB use it. Could make RARP work using this mechanism, but as someone else pointed out, the IB hardware address contains a

Re: [openib-general] IB Address Translation service

2005-03-07 Thread Michael Krause
Just to make this clear: - There are only two QP that are defined with specific intention - QP0 and QP1. All other QP may vary throughout the entire QP space. - All ULP built on top of IB must assume that the QP are variant and must discover these through various protocol such as the service

Re: [openib-general] IB Address Translation service

2005-03-05 Thread Peter Kjellstrm
On Friday 04 March 2005 22.06, Talpey, Thomas wrote: At 02:58 PM 3/4/2005, Tom Duffy wrote: In any event, I think being able to plop an IB network in an Ethernet world will require things like RARP to work. If there is no spec now, it should be written. I can't remember the last time I saw

Re: [openib-general] IB Address Translation service

2005-03-05 Thread David M. Brean
Greg Lindahl wrote: On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 11:58:33AM -0800, Tom Duffy wrote: In any event, I think being able to plop an IB network in an Ethernet world will require things like RARP to work. If there is no spec now, it should be written. Much more important is understanding the role of

Re: [openib-general] IB Address Translation service

2005-03-05 Thread David M. Brean
Tom Duffy wrote: On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 16:06 -0500, Talpey, Thomas wrote: At 02:58 PM 3/4/2005, Tom Duffy wrote: In any event, I think being able to plop an IB network in an Ethernet world will require things like RARP to work. If there is no spec now, it should be written. I can't

Re: [openib-general] IB Address Translation service

2005-03-05 Thread Hal Rosenstock
On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 21:04, Greg Lindahl wrote: Now it would be nice for ethernet broadcast packets to just work(tm) with IPoIB. ping -b is an example of a user-level program that generates a broadcast packet. Isn't ping -b a broadcast at the IP (ICMP) level which indirectly causes a

Re: [openib-general] IB Address Translation service

2005-03-05 Thread Hal Rosenstock
On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 10:22, David M. Brean wrote: There is an I-D for DHCP on IB. IPoIB defines a broadcast address and DHCP (and ARP) on IB use it. Could make RARP work using this mechanism, but as someone else pointed out, the IB hardware address contains a QPN. The I-D for IPoIB says

RE: [openib-general] IB Address Translation service

2005-03-05 Thread Yaron Haviv
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:openib-general- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hal Rosenstock Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2005 6:18 PM To: David M. Brean Cc: openib-general@openib.org Subject: Re: [openib-general] IB Address Translation service On Sat, 2005-03-05

RE: [openib-general] IB Address Translation service

2005-03-04 Thread Tom Duffy
On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 11:26 -0500, James Lentini wrote: tduffy The one thing that ATS provide and is not possible with tduffy ARP is reverse resolution GID-IP, any ideas how to achieve tduffy that without ATS ? tduffy tduffy RARP. Where is the encapsulation of RARP packets on IB

RE: [openib-general] IB Address Translation service

2005-03-04 Thread Talpey, Thomas
At 02:58 PM 3/4/2005, Tom Duffy wrote: In any event, I think being able to plop an IB network in an Ethernet world will require things like RARP to work. If there is no spec now, it should be written. I can't remember the last time I saw a machine RARP. Well, maybe I do but it was like

Re: [openib-general] IB Address Translation service

2005-03-04 Thread Greg Lindahl
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 11:58:33AM -0800, Tom Duffy wrote: In any event, I think being able to plop an IB network in an Ethernet world will require things like RARP to work. If there is no spec now, it should be written. Much more important is understanding the role of RARP in the ethernet

RE: [openib-general] IB Address Translation service

2005-03-04 Thread Tom Duffy
On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 16:06 -0500, Talpey, Thomas wrote: At 02:58 PM 3/4/2005, Tom Duffy wrote: In any event, I think being able to plop an IB network in an Ethernet world will require things like RARP to work. If there is no spec now, it should be written. I can't remember the last time I

RE: [openib-general] IB Address Translation service

2005-03-03 Thread shaharf
The advantage of ATS is that it just works whether wired point to point, or via a switch, or whatever. It requires no central administration, works as transparently as ARP and ND, and supports IP addressing so applications don't have any ambiguity in how they resolve names. If we get

RE: [openib-general] IB Address Translation service

2005-03-02 Thread Kanevsky, Arkady
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 6:02 PM To: Yaron Haviv Cc: openib-general@openib.org Subject: RE: [openib-general] IB Address Translation service [ putting back on list ] On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 00:29 +0200, Yaron Haviv wrote: Did you try RARP with IPoIB ? I have

RE: [dat-discussions] RE: [openib-general] IB Address Translation service

2005-03-02 Thread Dror Goldenberg
Title: RE: [dat-discussions] RE: [openib-general] IB Address Translation service From: Kanevsky, Arkady [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 1:44 PM Some historical perspective - ATS was defined prior to IPoIB. The requirements. DAT has two needs: 1. forward

RE: [openib-general] IB Address Translation service

2005-03-02 Thread James Lentini
tduffy The one thing that ATS provide and is not possible with tduffy ARP is reverse resolution GID-IP, any ideas how to achieve tduffy that without ATS ? tduffy tduffy RARP. Where is the encapsulation of RARP packets on IB defined? The Transmission of IP over InfiniBand IETF draft

RE: [openib-general] IB Address Translation service

2005-03-02 Thread Yaron Haviv
-Original Message- From: Tom Duffy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 1:02 AM To: Yaron Haviv Cc: openib-general@openib.org Subject: RE: [openib-general] IB Address Translation service [ putting back on list ] On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 00:29 +0200, Yaron

RE: [openib-general] IB Address Translation service

2005-03-02 Thread Talpey, Thomas
At 01:15 PM 3/2/2005, Yaron Haviv wrote: In order to issue a RARP I believe you should supply the full HW address to get the IP address back, how would you know the remote IPoIB QPN ? or can you do it without a QPN ? To say nothing of the fact that there must be a RARPD, administered and secured

RE: [openib-general] IB Address Translation service

2005-03-01 Thread Yaron Haviv
Dreier; shaharf; openib-general@openib.org Subject: Re: [openib-general] IB Address Translation service Yaron Haviv [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:openib-general- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Roland Dreier Sent: Monday, February

Re: [openib-general] IB Address Translation service

2005-03-01 Thread Michael Krause
@openib.org Subject: Re: [openib-general] IB Address Translation service This API seems overly complex and at the same time too inflexible to me. However, rather than getting bogged down nitpicking about APIs, I think we have to take a few steps back. I believe the API is very flexible

RE: [openib-general] IB Address Translation service

2005-03-01 Thread Tom Duffy
On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 08:07 +0200, Yaron Haviv wrote: The one thing that ATS provide and is not possible with ARP is reverse resolution GID-IP, any ideas how to achieve that without ATS ? RARP. -tduffy signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

RE: [openib-general] IB Address Translation service

2005-03-01 Thread Tom Duffy
[ putting back on list ] On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 00:29 +0200, Yaron Haviv wrote: Did you try RARP with IPoIB ? I have not. I thought that there is some issue that it doesn't work Currently, the rarpd only works with ethernet, but I don't see why this couldn't be fixed. Also I hope you can

Re: [openib-general] IB Address Translation service

2005-03-01 Thread Libor Michalek
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 11:55:54PM +0200, Yaron Haviv wrote: From: Libor Michalek SDP does implement a subset of the proposed functionality for resolving IP addresses to PathRecords which can then be used in a CM REQ request, plus some basic caching. All the code is isolated to a

RE: [openib-general] IB Address Translation service

2005-02-28 Thread shaharf
This API seems overly complex and at the same time too inflexible to me. However, rather than getting bogged down nitpicking about APIs, I think we have to take a few steps back. I am very open to suggestions. First, let's understand the problem we're trying to solve. Who are the

Re: [openib-general] IB Address Translation service

2005-02-28 Thread Roland Dreier
Roland First, let's understand the problem we're trying to solve. Roland Who are the consumers of this address translation service? shaharf Any ULPs at user kernel, and also some shaharf applications. I think this is too general an answer. We should be designing based on

Re: [openib-general] IB Address Translation service

2005-02-28 Thread Libor Michalek
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 10:29:19AM -0800, Roland Dreier wrote: Roland First, let's understand the problem we're trying to solve. Roland Who are the consumers of this address translation service? shaharf Any ULPs at user kernel, and also some shaharf applications. I think

RE: [openib-general] IB Address Translation service

2005-02-28 Thread Yaron Haviv
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:openib-general- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Roland Dreier Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 7:13 PM To: shaharf Cc: openib-general@openib.org Subject: Re: [openib-general] IB Address Translation service This API seems overly

Re: [openib-general] IB Address Translation service

2005-02-28 Thread Roland Dreier
Paul Would this proposed address translation layer interface Paul provide a sufficient subset of IPoIB functionality that Paul allowed an SDP implementation to exist without a larger, Paul full-featured IPoIB implementation? I doubt it. Right now the IPoIB driver has very little

Re: [openib-general] IB Address Translation service

2005-02-28 Thread Libor Michalek
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 07:31:47PM -, Paul Baxter wrote: Roland First, let's understand the problem we're trying to solve. Roland Who are the consumers of this address translation service? shaharf Any ULPs at user kernel, and also some shaharf applications. I think

RE: [openib-general] IB Address Translation service

2005-02-28 Thread Yaron Haviv
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:openib-general- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Libor Michalek Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 8:55 PM To: Roland Dreier Cc: openib-general@openib.org Subject: Re: [openib-general] IB Address Translation service SDP does

Re: [openib-general] IB Address Translation service

2005-02-28 Thread Libor Michalek
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 03:37:55PM -0800, Tom Duffy wrote: On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 21:47 +0200, Yaron Haviv wrote: And as you mentioned there is value to have the same API for different resolution mechanisms, the SDP code can be altered in future to ride over the proposed API, so it can be

RE: [openib-general] IB Address Translation service

2005-02-28 Thread Yaron Haviv
-Original Message- From: Tom Duffy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 1:38 AM To: Yaron Haviv Cc: Paul Baxter; openib-general@openib.org Subject: RE: [openib-general] IB Address Translation service On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 21:47 +0200, Yaron Haviv wrote

RE: [openib-general] IB Address Translation service

2005-02-28 Thread Yaron Haviv
-Original Message- From: Libor Michalek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 2:04 AM To: Yaron Haviv Cc: Paul Baxter; openib-general@openib.org Subject: Re: [openib-general] IB Address Translation service On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 09:55:50PM +0200, Yaron Haviv

RE: [openib-general] IB Address Translation service

2005-02-28 Thread Yaron Haviv
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Krause Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 2:07 AM To: openib-general@openib.org Subject: RE: [openib-general] IB Address Translation service At 11:47 AM 2/28/2005, Yaron Haviv wrote

Re: [openib-general] IB Address Translation service

2005-02-28 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Yaron Haviv [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:openib-general- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Roland Dreier Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 7:13 PM To: shaharf Cc: openib-general@openib.org Subject: Re: [openib-general] IB Address