On Wed, 8 Feb 2023 20:59:59 -0400 Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > Who said IP configuration. > > Please explain to me your vision how we could do IPSEC in rdma and > continue to use an IP address owned by netdev while netdev is also > running IPSEC on the same IP address for netdev traffic. I'm no expert on IPsec but AFAIK it doesn't treat the entire endpoint as a single unit. > I can't see how it is even technically possible. > > Tell me how the NIC knows, on a packet by packet basis, if the IPSEC > or IKE packet should be delivered to netdev or to RDMA. Just a forwarding problem. Whether NIC matches on UDP port or ESP+SPI programmed via some random API is a detail. Could you please go back to answering the question of how we deliver on the compromise that was established to merge the full xfrm offload? There's only so much time I can spend circling the subject.