Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Linux and system area networks | Date | Tue, 26 Jun 2001 01:14:09 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> OK, how about an Infiniband network with a TCP/IP gateway at the edge? > Have we thought about how Linux servers should use the gateway to talk > to internet hosts? Surely there's no point in running TCP/IP inside > the Infiniband network, so there needs to be some concept of "socket > over Infiniband."
So write the library, it shouldnt need the kernel involved, and you can take over AF_INET socket syscalls with an LD_PRELOAD so it can be transparent - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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