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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Hi Alicia,</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">You are right bonding package inside OFED replaces bonding package</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">that is installed on your OS (ib-bonding is installed under</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">/lib/modules/<uname -r>/updates, therefore if you will remove it, you</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">will have native bonding working).</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">I assume that your OS is RH 4.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Indeed in OFED 1.3 there was a bug, that Ethernet bonding didn't work</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">on RH4, but there is a workaround in OFED 1.3.1.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">ib-bonding rpm includes ib-bonding.txt file that has an instruction</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">how to configure Ethernet bonding:</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">(/usr/share/doc/packages/ib-bonding-0.9.0/ib-bonding.txt)</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><I></I></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><I><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">3.3 Configuring Ethernet slaves</FONT></I></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><I><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">-------------------------------</FONT></I></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><I><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">It is not possible to have a mix of Ethernet slaves and IPoIB slaves under the</FONT></I></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><I><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">same bonding master. It is possible however that a bonding master of Ethernet</FONT></I></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><I><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">slaves and a bonding master of IPoIB slaves will co-exist in one machine.</FONT></I></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><I><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">To configure Ethernet slaves under a bonding master use the same instructions</FONT></I></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><I><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">as for IPoIB slaves (according to the OS) with one exception. When working</FONT></I></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><I><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">under Redhat-AS4 do the following when configuring a bonding master with</FONT></I></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><I><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Ethernet slaves</FONT></I></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><I><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">- In the master configuration file add the line</FONT></I></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><I><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">SLAVEDEV=1</FONT></I></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><I><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">- In the slave configuration file leave the line</FONT></I></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><I><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">TYPE=InfiniBand</FONT></I></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">This bug will be fixed in OFED 1.4.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Please let me know if it helps.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Best Regards</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Olga</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">---------- Forwarded message ----------</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">From: Acero Fernandez Alicia <alicia.acero@ciemat.es></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Date: Jul 10, 2008 10:51 AM</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Subject: [ewg] Ofed1.3 bonding problem</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">To: ewg@lists.openfabrics.org</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Hi everybody,</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">I am trying to install ofed1.3 in my cluster. I have done ethernet</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">bonding in some network interfaces and I would like to install</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">ofed1.3, but when I try it ethernet network connection is lost. I have</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">been looking for a solution, but I have found that the module name for</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">ethernet bonding and for infiniband bonding is the same, then perhaps</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">it is the reason, is it true? In that case, how could I solve it? It</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">doesn´t seem to be solved in ofed1.3.1 because I have tried to install</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">it and the same happens.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Could you help me, please?</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Regards</FONT></SPAN></P>
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