Chapter 9. Intro to the Managers

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The previous chapter described the 128-bit global address used to route a packet from its source CA port in one subnet to the destination CA port in another subnet. IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) addresses were introduced (both unicast and multicast) as well as the documentation convention used for IPv6 addresses. Each 128-bit global address consists of a 64-bit subnet prefix and a 64-bit globally unique ID (GUID). This chapter described how all ports in a subnet are assigned the same subnet ID as well as one or more GUIDs. The concept of a global multipathing was introduced.

This Chapter

This chapter introduces the Subnet Manager (SM), the Subnet Management Agent (SMA), the General Services ...

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