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Wed, 07 Nov 2007

iWARP port sharing problem.

I read Ronald Dreier's post about iWARP port sharing problem and want to shed some light on it.
Besides the fact, that Ronald greatly described basics of the technology, he skipped, that problem was discussed and solution was found with introduction of iWARP specific aliases which should be assigned by administrator, so that network stack got a new ifindex and application bound to different device would not get the same port as iWARP ones.
Ronald also skipped that part, where it was suggested some improvements, which were not implemted (error propagation and fallback, automazation of the process (like alias creation) and other bits), most of the time essentially the same answer was received, that it is not needed... Maybe it is, but why this talk was missed in Ronald's presentation of the evil empire of the network developers?
So, I think, RDMA people do not need a discussion, you want that your own ideas got merged just because of the fact, that you believe it is cool, and no matter how things are in real life and what others say you about it.

I know that, because it was me, who performed first review of the alias patches for iWARP.

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