On Thu, Jan 09, 2025 at 12:49:16PM -0500, Tom Talpey wrote: > Absolutely. Windows has a number of filters on both sides to decide > which interfaces to advertise (server) and which to actually connect > to (client). For example, back-end cluster interfaces are never > exposed via QUERY_NETWORK_INTERFACES. > > The ksmbd.conf file already has the "interfaces=" stanza, perhaps > you/we should simply consider using that list as the base. This > effectively would force the "bind interfaces only" flag to true > for RDMA adapters however. Making system-specific lists like these > explicitly opt-in is rarely popular. Filter still seems like the wrong approach vs an explicitly configured list. That's what for example nvme over fabrics does for discovery.
