IP OVER INFINIBAND
The ib_ipoib driver is an implementation of the IP over InfiniBand
- protocol as specified by RFC 4391 and 4392, issued by the IETF ipoib
- working group. It is a "native" implementation in the sense of
- setting the interface type to ARPHRD_INFINIBAND and the hardware
- address length to 20 (earlier proprietary implementations
+ protocol as specified by the latest Internet-Drafts issued by the
+ IETF ipoib working group. It is a "native" implementation in the
+ sense of setting the interface type to ARPHRD_INFINIBAND and the
+ hardware address length to 20 (earlier proprietary implementations
masqueraded to the kernel as ethernet interfaces).
Partitions and P_Keys
References
- Transmission of IP over InfiniBand (IPoIB) (RFC 4391)
- http://ietf.org/rfc/rfc4391.txt
- IP over InfiniBand (IPoIB) Architecture (RFC 4392)
- http://ietf.org/rfc/rfc4392.txt
+ IETF IP over InfiniBand (ipoib) Working Group
+ http://ietf.org/html.charters/ipoib-charter.html