I don't think that a standard is actually needed... My naive understanding is that the NIC firmware does packet inspection
As I just said, I thought there was a bridge chip before the NIC, and I agree there is packet filtering. Look up my tortuous examination of what happens when you run a lot of 'rsh'sessions on a cluster, and clash with the IPMI ports (ie your rsh session disappears down a big hole). And before anyone says it - more modern kernels raise the sun rpc min reserved port to above the IPMI port(s) The contents of this email are confidential and for the exclusive use of the intended recipient. If you receive this email in error you should not copy it, retransmit it, use it or disclose its contents but should return it to the sender immediately and delete your copy. _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
