[Fwd: Re: [openib-general] Solaris IPoIB MTU with OpenSM]

[Hal Rosenstock]

Hi Nitin,

On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 16:15, Nitin Hande wrote:
> This is cool, I have got Solaris IPoIB happily working with the
> OpenSM now. It plumbs, pings and snoops on 0xffff pkey. 

Great. That's good news. I'll work on a real fix for this now.

> On other hand, on my linux node, if I try to use 8001 partition and
> configure IB interface with IP addr (same time while ib0 is using 0xffff
> pkey), I get the following error, you may want to investigate that....
> 
> [root at flopteron2 ~]# echo 0x8001 > /sys/class/net/ib0/create_child
> [root at flopteron2 ~]# ifconfig ib0.8001 10.10.1.1
> [root at flopteron2ib0.8001: multicast join failed for
> ff12:401b:8001:0:0:0:ffff:ffff, status -22
>  ~]# ib0.8001: multicast join failed for ff12:401b:8001:0:0:0:ffff:ffff,
> status -22

I will look into this but I suspect this is caused by the response to
some request in the join "flow" to be more than 1 RMPP packet. Remember
that OpenSM is currently hamstrung in this manner until there is
sufficient RMPP for SA GetTableResps.

Thanks.

-- Hal