[ofa-general] IB bonding documentation

[Olga Shern (Voltaire)]

On 7/16/08, Olga Shern (Voltaire) <olga.shern at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/16/08, Keshetti Mahesh <keshetti.mahesh at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > ib-bonding for IPoIB is working only in ACTIVE - PASSIVE mode.
> > > No link aggregation mode is supported.
> >
> >
> > Thanks for the reply. I remember there was a IPOIB-HA tool
> > included in OFED before which does the same. What happened to that ?
> >
> Bonding is the best way to achieve HA with IPoIB.
> IPOIB-HA tool no longer supported.
>
> > Is there any work going on to support all 'mode's of ib-bonding for IPoIB?
> >
> Yes, we are working on this. Not all modes but to enable Load balancing.
>
> > Finally, Is it required to connect all slaves to same switch to achieve HA with
> > ib-bonding ?
> >
> Yes, currently HA supported only with one Infiniband subnet.
> We also working on this, to support HA on two different Infiniband subnets.
>

You can connect HCA different ports (slaves) to different switches,
but they should be in the same Infiniband fabric, that what I meant :)

> > -Mahesh
> >
>
> Olga
>