Chapter 17. RC Transport Service

The Previous Chapter

The IBA specification defines a number of mechanisms to prevent various types of unauthorized access. The previous chapter provided a detailed description of the protection mechanisms (other than the memory protection mechanisms):

• Preventing unauthorized access to UD QPs with PDs.

• Partition keys (P_Keys).

• Management keys (M_Keys).

• The Subnet Management key (SM_Key).

• Reliable Datagram Domains (RDDs).

• Queue keys (Q_Keys).

• Baseboard Management keys (B_Keys).

The previous chapter concluded the part of the book that focused on the protection mechanisms (i.e., Part 3).

This Chapter

This chapter provides a detailed description of the RC transport service.

The Next Chapter

The next chapter provides a detailed description of the UC transport service.