[openib-general] Question

Yaron Haviv yaronh at voltaire.com
Mon Feb 28 14:11:55 PST 2005


Ron, I believe netdiscover uses direct route MADs
So it can work also when the fabric is not fully initialized 

Yaron

> -----Original Message-----
> From: openib-general-bounces at openib.org [mailto:openib-general-
> bounces at openib.org] On Behalf Of Ronald G. Minnich
> Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 12:07 AM
> To: openib-general at openib.org
> Subject: [openib-general] Question
> 
> 
> If ibnetdiscover can do stuff like this:
> hcaguids=0xc074660801c90200
> Hca     2 "H-0002c901086674c0"          # MT23108 InfiniHost Mellanox
> Technologies
> [1]     "S-0002c90112c08b40"[2]         # lid 0 lmc 0
> 
> 
> etc. etc.
> 
> i.e., probe all the way to the edge of the network and find things
out,
> what could be going on such that opensm won't work at all? I did an
svn
> update and complete rebuild friday. But opensm is still totally stuck.
> 
> I have power cycled all switches, and indeed the whole system. I did
yank
> (yet another) dead power supply on one mellanox switch, but still ..
> ibnetdiscover is happy, and opensm is not.
> 
> opensm -r does not help.
> 
> I'm basically baffled. What is ibnetdiscover able to do that opensm is
not
> able to do?
> 
> thanks
> 
> ron
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