[ofa-general] IB switches: managed or not?

[Greg Lindahl]

On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 02:41:29PM -0800, Ira Weiny wrote:

> Their are some issues with diags.  However, I don't know of any product from
> any vendor which captures on the wire packets like Wireshark.  (But I could be
> wrong and would love to know about it if it was out there.)

It's trivial to capture InfiniBand packets off the wire by hacking up
the InfiniPath driver a little. Analyzing it (at line rate) is left as
an exercise for the reader. ;-) And, of course, that doesn't capture
all the things that go outside packets.

-- greg