[ofa-general] Standby OpenSM reporting "Bad LinearFDBTop" value

Sasha Khapyorsky sashak at voltaire.com
Thu Mar 13 07:06:08 PDT 2008


On 04:35 Thu 13 Mar     , Hal Rosenstock wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 07:06 +0000, Sasha Khapyorsky wrote:
> > > Mar 12 17:05:57 843032 [43204940] -> osm_si_rcv_process: ERR 3610:
> > >                                 Bad LinearFDBTop value = 0xC000 on
> > > switch 0xb8cffff004879
> > >                                 Forcing correction to 0x0
> > > Mar 12 17:05:58 049623 [41401940] -> Entering STANDBY state
> > 
> > This shows that switch reports bad value of SwitchInfo.LinearFDBTop
> 
> Yes, but standby shouldn't program subnet, so correction shouldn't be
> done by standby.

It doesn't modify LinearFDBTop on switch, just local variable value
during discovery - in case of the master OpenSM will later update the
value on switch too.

Sasha



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