On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 15:35 +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 09:43:23PM -0700, David Miller wrote: > > > > Socket state, and that is one thing I don't see them doing yet. > > I wonder what happens when the Linux TCP stack attempts to open a > connection to a remote host when that connection is already open > in the RDMA NIC? For that matter what happens if a Linux application > decides to listen on a TCP port already listened on by the RDMA > NIC? > > The only saving grace is that they're only doing RDMA rather than > arbitrary TCP. However, exactly the same infrastructure can be used > to do arbitrary TCP should they wish to. > > > But we have to realize they've already been given %95 of the > > interfaces they need to speak IP using our routes and our neighbour > > entries. > > > > Right? > > Yes, however I think the same argument could be applied to TOE. > > With their RDMA NIC, we'll have TCP/SCTP connections that bypass > netfilter, tc, IPsec, AF_PACKET/tcpdump and the rest of our stack > while at the same time it is using the same IP address as us and > deciding what packets we will or won't see. >
Doesn't iSCSI have the same issue? No netfilter, IPsec, tcpdump, etc... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
