From: Roland Dreier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 09:54:37 -0700
> In any case I think we need to find a way for Linux to support iWARP > hardware, since there are users that want this, and (some of) the > vendors are working hard to do things the right way (including cc'ing > netdev on the conversation). I don't think it's good for Linux for > the answer to just be, "sorry, you're wrong to want to use that hardware." We give the same response for TOE stuff. The integration of iWARP with the Linux networking, while much better than TOE, is still heavily flawed. What most people might not realize when using this stuff is that: 1) None of their firewall rules will apply to the iWARP communications. 2) None of their packet scheduling configurations can be applied to the iWARP communications. 3) It is not possible to encapsulate iWARP traffic in IPSEC And the list goes on and on. This is what we don't like about technologies that implement their own networking stack in the card firmware. - 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
