Goal: Tunneling Non-IBA Packets through IBA Network
Assume that software associated with an IBA CA wishes to send a message to a device outside of the IBA fabric and the message must be transmitted in a packet that uses a protocol other than IBA. The destination device resides in another subnet that is not an IBA-environment (e.g., it resides within an Ethernet network). The packet that the IBA CA transmits would therefore have to be an Ethernet packet. This presents the problem of how the packet manages to traverse the IBA subnet (or subnets) until it arrives at a router that is connected to the destination Ethernet network.
The reverse situation may also occur: a non-IBA device may wish to send a non-IBA packet to a software application associated ...
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