[openib-general] Question

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 17:46, Ronald G. Minnich wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Hal Rosenstock wrote:
> 
> > OpenSM is responsible for initializing the fabric (and needs to work
> > with an uninitialized fabric).
> 
> ??
> 
> You mean, if you have an initialized fabric, opensm can't work? 

No, I mean that OpenSM _has_ to work on an uninitialized fabric as it is
required to bring it from uninitialized to initialized.

> Is there useful material on the web that explains this? I keep looking for 
> good technical docs on this stuff but keep finding stuff like "IB is the 
> future" and "IB replaces fibrechannel" and "IB market is growing" but not 
> the kind of good information I keep seeing on this list. 

There are some good presentations on what an SM/SA needs to do. I will
see what I can dig up and post.

-- Hal