Re: Linux and system area networks

[Alan Cox]

> 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