
• Native convergence of IB network and transport
layers with Ethernet link layer
• IB packets encapsulated in Ethernet frames
• IB network layer already uses IPv6 frames
• Pros:
– Works natively in Ethernet environments (entire
Ethernet management ecosystem is available)
– Has all the benefits of IB verbs
• Cons:
– Network bandwidth might be limited to Ethernet
switches: 10GE switches available; 40GE yet to
arrive; 32 Gbps IB available
– Some IB native link-layer features are optional in
(regular) Ethernet
• Approved by OFA board to be included into OFED
CCGrid '11
(InfiniBand) RDMA over Ethernet (IBoE or RoE)
Ethernet
IB Network
IB Transport
IB Verbs
Application
Hardware
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