[openib-general] [openfabrics-ewg] OFED 1.1-rc1 is available

Roland Dreier rdreier at cisco.com
Thu Aug 10 13:59:08 PDT 2006


    James> Why don't you find it useful as an InfiniBand diagnosis
    James> tool?

    James> In the absence of IPoIB (and therefore ICMP pings), it can
    James> be used to test connectivity.

Sure, but AFAIK the ibping userspace app (which is required to use it
anyway) has a server mode, so you don't need the kernel module.  And
I'm hard pressed to imagine a situation where the SM could bring a
port up but ibping would show a problem.

Putting some non-standard network server into the kernel just for some
oddball debugging scenario doesn't seem worth it to me.

 - R.




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