Chapter 10. Intro to Connection Establishment
The Previous Chapter
This chapter introduced the Subnet Manager (SM), the Subnet Management Agent (SMA), the General Services Managers (GSMs), the General Services Agents (GSAs), the Subnet Administrator (SA), the Subnet Management Interface (SMI), the General Services Interface (GSI), Subnet Management Packets (SMPs), and General Services Management Packets (GMPs). The possibility of multiple SMs in one subnet was introduced, the concept of GMP redirection, how a trap can deliver an event notification to a manager, and how an entity can subscribe to a manager for the forwarding of event notifications.
This Chapter
This chapter starts by introducing the concept of services, how a CA is located, and ...
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