Caitlin, I agree with your analysis RARP is not really needed for establishing the connection (The CM REQ message contains all the returned path attributes as...
Yaron Haviv
yaronh@...
Jun 1, 2003 8:41 am
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I don't understand your point here, but I have a couple of observations. 1. You can't impose on applications what sort of node names (addresses) they will use....
Sears, Steven
sjs@...
Jun 2, 2003 6:57 pm
2414
... An IA Address is intended to be usable as an identifier. The idea of connecting with an advertised service was specifically rejected as being incompatible...
OK, I think I understand your point now, but please correct me if I am wrong. ... What I infer is that you are proposing that a GID always be an allowable...
... They are the same nightmares that introducing any IPv6 address will cause. Other than a few experiments, there aren't going to be many "IPv6 only" networks...
FYI, I've made a proposal to the IETF to allow Private Data exchanges when establishing iWARP "connections". ====== Forwarded Message ====== Date: 6/4/03 11:06...
I've been doing some surfing on the question of exactly how difficult it is to support hostname lookups based upon GIDs (or more precisely IPv6 formatted...
I have a couple of observations: Don't get hung up on the implementation. You really don't want a utility for the administrator to run, it is almost guaranteed...
Sears, Steven
sjs@...
Jun 6, 2003 12:58 pm
2423
Can all vendors and Consumers please, state their requirement for IPv4? Does your company need IPv4 addresses for DAPL? Can you live with IPv6 addresses only? ...
... I'd like to turn those questions around. How do your applications intend to use the Source IA Address in a Connection Request? a) There's a Source IA...
Most NFS servers support access control via an access list of hostnames. The list can be used to accept or reject client access to a particular export. In the...
... Brent, The issue is whether it is reasonable to require that 'gethostbyaddr()' will be able to translate a IPv6 address (which is really a GID, but the...
I concur that we must have reverse name lookup capabilities. DB2 can live with IPv6 addresses but, there may well be applications that can't and I really don't...
... Sun has existing products that use IPv4 and will continue to use IPv4 for some time on IPoIB network before switching to IPv6. We have reviewed Steve...
Sherman Pun
sherman.pun@...
Jun 11, 2003 2:08 am
2431
Folks, Here is the final wording for the dual license header to be included with all source files in the DAPL Reference Implementation on Source Forge. - Dave...
David Ford
dford@...
Jun 11, 2003 4:27 pm
2432
... lookup for GIDs ... to use IPv4 ... The fact that some SA implementations may have relatively limited resources is an additional reason to avoid requiring...
... I thought of another c) The Provider MUST NOT use ATS for passive-side translation if it can use gethostbyaddr() to translate its *own* GID to a hostname. ...
During the conference call I agreed to post a specific proposal on Address Translation rules. Here it is: Definition: A Translated Address is an IA Address...
... Correct. As stated elsewhere, doing so really violates the rule that an IA Address has IPv6 format and IP semantics. ... We could state both, but as you...
Modified based on Arkady's questions: Definition: A Translated Address is an IA Address assigned to an Interface Adapter that is NOT a valid GID for that IA. ...
I am unclear on one point. Which of the following is true? * If any IB GID is registered such that address-to-hostname translation succeeds, then we...
... There are two seperate issues: a) Is a given IA Address a valid GID or an alias? b) Can a given GID be used to identify the source? The critical rule for...
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