RE: Architectural scope of IP over Inifiniband

At 12:25 PM 9/15/2003 -0700, John A. Thodiyil wrote:

>Would it be right to say that this
>is in a way the classic LAN emulation over ATM
>being resurected in the Infiniband domain.

That analogy has been made in previous discussions - similar concept.

Mike


>-John
>
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>Of Michael Krause
>Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 7:03 AM
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>Subject: Re: [Ipoverib] Architectural scope of IP over Inifiniband
>
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>At 03:09 PM 9/13/2003 -0700, [email protected] wrote:
>
>
> >I was actively following the RDDP group, and happened
> >to come across this interesting group as well.
> >
> >I am kind of lost as to why one would want IP which is
> >unreliable to be carried over a reliable link
> >infrastructure without any reliable transport layer at
> >the TCA or the HCA.
> >
> >Would the intent of this be to tunnel the IP packets
> >through a Infiniband fabric and emerge as IP to some
> >point outside that supports TCP/IP for reliable
> >transport.
>
>The intent is to allow the IP protocol suite to be supported over an
>InfiniBand fabric - there are many usage models even with an InfiniBand
>only solution (this was covered in the first BOF to kick off this workgroup
>- not sure where those slides are posted but might be a good background
>reference). This can be between two endnodes, e.g. a set of servers, or
>between two devices, e.g. an IB-to-IP gateway where one links an InfiniBand
>connected set of endnodes with another fabric type (e.g. Ethernet) and
>provide IP routed packets between the two domains.
>
>Mike
>
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