[ofa-general] IB bonding documentation

Olga Shern (Voltaire) olga.shern at gmail.com
Wed Jul 16 01:55:04 PDT 2008


Hi Mahesh,

ib-bonding for IPoIB is working only in ACTIVE - PASSIVE mode.
No link aggregation mode is supported.

Olga

On 7/16/08, Keshetti Mahesh <keshetti.mahesh at gmail.com> wrote:
> 'ib-bonding.txt' file in the "docs" folder of OFED-1.3 release mentions
> ib-bonding as a HA solution for IPoIB interfaces. But it does not mention
> anything about link aggregation. My question is whether ethernet channel
> bonding is completely adopted to work with IPoIB interfaces or only parts
> of it are adopted ?
>
> If all the 'mode's (balance-rr, balance-xor etc.) are supported in
> ib-bonding then
> how they are supported (I've read in ethernet channel bonding
> documentation that
> balance-rr, balance-xor etc. modes operation requires 'switch' support) ?
>
> -Mahesh
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