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Hi Scott,<BR>
Please see my comments below:<BR>
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On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 23:24 -0700, Scott Weitzenkamp (sweitzen) wrote:
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<FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="#000000">Vlad,</FONT></FONT>
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<FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="#000000">I filed a bug for these issues.</FONT></FONT>
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<FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="#000000">1) If I start IPoIB HA with ib0 IB port shut down (from IB switch) and ib1 IB port enabled, then IPoIB does not work because "ip monitor link all" does not report NO-CARRIER at startup like ipoib_ha.pl is looking for. This is a major hole.</FONT></FONT><BR>
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Fixed, will be updated in OFED-1.1-rc7.<BR>
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<FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="#000000">2) /etc/init.d/openibd runs ipoib_ha.pl with its stdout and stderr redirected to /dev/null, should we run with -v for verbose instead and redirect log file to /var/log?</FONT></FONT>
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<FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="#000000"># fgrep ipoib_ha.pl /etc/init.d/openibd</FONT></FONT><BR>
<FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="#000000"> ipoib_ha.pl -p ${PRIMARY_IPOIB_DEV} -s ${SECONDARY_IPOIB_DEV} --</FONT></FONT><BR>
<FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="#000000">with-arping --with-multicast > /dev/null 2>&1 &</FONT></FONT><BR>
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Added /var/log/ipoib_ha.log and the verbose output of ipoib_ha.pl redirected into this log file.<BR>
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<FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="#000000">3) I got IPoIB HA working on SLES 10, but the documentation is a little lacking. Looks like I have to put the same IP address in ifcfg-ib0 and ifcfg-ib1, is this correct?</FONT></FONT>
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Yes, IP address should be the same. Actually the configuration of the secondary interface does not matter. <BR>
The High Availability daemon reads the configuration of the primary interface and migrates it between the interfaces in case of failure.<BR>
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<FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="#000000"># pwd</FONT></FONT><BR>
<FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="#000000">/etc/sysconfig/network</FONT></FONT><BR>
<FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="#000000"># cat ifcfg-ib0</FONT></FONT><BR>
<FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="#000000">DEVICE=ib0</FONT></FONT><BR>
<FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="#000000">BOOTPROTO=static</FONT></FONT><BR>
<FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="#000000">IPADDR=192.168.2.46</FONT></FONT><BR>
<FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="#000000">NETMASK=255.255.255.0</FONT></FONT><BR>
<FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="#000000">ONBOOT=yes</FONT></FONT><BR>
<FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="#000000"># cat ifcfg-ib1</FONT></FONT><BR>
<FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="#000000">DEVICE=ib1</FONT></FONT><BR>
<FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="#000000">BOOTPROTO=static</FONT></FONT><BR>
<FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="#000000">IPADDR=192.168.2.46</FONT></FONT><BR>
<FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="#000000">NETMASK=255.255.255.0</FONT></FONT><BR>
<FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="#000000">ONBOOT=yes</FONT></FONT>
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<FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="#000000">4) If I shutdown ib0 IB port, I see this from "/usr/local/ofed/bin/ipoib_ha.pl -v --with-arping --with-multicast"</FONT></FONT>
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<FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="#000000"> Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/local/ofed/bin/ipoib_ha.pl line 287.</FONT></FONT><BR>
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Fixed.<BR>
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<B><I><FONT COLOR="#000040">Best Regards,</FONT></I></B> <BR>
<B><I><FONT COLOR="#000040">Vladimir Sokolovsky</FONT></I></B> <BR>
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