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PROPOSED STANDARD

Updated by:

RFC 8064

Authors:

J. Chu
V. Kashyap

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IETF

Source:

ipoib (int)

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC4391

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Abstract

This document specifies a method for encapsulating and transmittingIPv4/IPv6 and Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) packets overInfiniBand (IB). It describes the link-layer address to be used whenresolving the IP addresses in IP over InfiniBand (IPoIB) subnets.The document also describes the mapping from IP multicast addressesto InfiniBand multicast addresses. In addition, this documentdefines the setup and configuration of IPoIB links. [STANDARDS-TRACK]

For the definition ofStatus,seeRFC 2026.

For the definition ofStream, seeRFC 8729.