RD Connection Establishment
Background
Refer to Figure 10-3 on page 201. As previously described in “Reliable Datagram (RD) Service Type” on page 67, a local and a remote RD QP communicate by passing messages through a “pipeline” between the two CAs that they reside in (the “pipeline” is referred to as a Reliable Datagram Channel, or RDC). The two ends of the pipeline are referred to as EECs (End-to-End Contexts).
Figure 10-3. QP Basics
It should be fairly obvious that a RD QP cannot send messages to or receive messages from remote RD QPs unless at least one RDC exists through which to pass messages to each other. This section describes the initial ...
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