October 2002
Intermediate to advanced
1280 pages
24h 35m
English
When a port's Link Layer receives an inbound request SMP from the SM, it is processed as follows:
1. | The SMP packet is received into the port's VL15 receive buffer. It should be noted that if the buffer is currently full—the minimum required buffer depth is one SMP packet—then the inbound SMP is discarded. |
2. | The SMP's DLID address is used to route the packet. Based on the address in the DLID field, there are three possible cases:
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