[ofa-general] ipoib bonding problems in 1.3-beta2 and 1.2.5.4,

[Scott Weitzenkamp (sweitzen)]

> > > The question on usage case of bonding over separate 
> fabrics have been
> > > brought to me several times and I gave this answer, 
> no-one ever tried
> > > to educate me why its interesting, maybe you will do so...
> > >
> >
> > I don't have good reason. I used two separated fabrics configuration
> > because my lacking understanding on ethernet/ib bonding and the old
> > methodology way of redundancy in ethernet  & FC using two 
> separated fabrics.
> 
> Yes, that was my guess, but, my hope was that you can provide some
> reasoning for thismethodology way of redundancy which I understand you
> were using also for SRP HA, so can you say anything in favor of the
> way you were working till now? As I said, this problem of failure in
> one side enforcing a failure in the other side, and worse, when there
> are more than two players, eg one target and N initiators, fail-over
> in one initiator forces the target to fail-over --> forces the other
> N-1 initiators to fail-over!?

I think separate fabrics is a desirable, intuitive redundancy model.
With storage each initiator fails over independently.

Scott