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color=#0000ff size=2>I have not tried the OFED 1.2 IPoIB bonding kernel driver,
and can only speak for the userspace IPoIB HA ipoib_ha.pl
script.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>Both Topspin IPoIB and OFED IPoIB have active/passive IPoIB
high availability, neither can aggregate IPoIB throughput, and neither has SDP
high availability.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>We will have Tosppin driver SLES10 drivers in beta soon,
let me know if you are interested.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Scott
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> general-bounces@lists.openfabrics.org
[mailto:general-bounces@lists.openfabrics.org] <B>On Behalf Of </B>SEGERS
Koen<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, March 07, 2007 6:59 AM<BR><B>To:</B>
general@lists.openfabrics.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> [ofa-general] infiniband
bonding/merging/aggregation with SDP and/orVERBS<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<P><FONT size=2>Hi all!<BR><BR>We are trying to bond two ports on 1 HCA so
that we are able aggregate the throughput. We are also interested in bonding
ports of different HCA's.<BR><BR>Is this possible with the OFED driver? If so,
can you give the command?<BR>We know TopSpin has support for this feature.
Sadly, Topspin has no driver that runs on our system (SLES 10).<BR><BR>We
currently installed OFED-1.2 of 20070306 and the stable OFED-1.1 driver, but
we can't figure out how this bonding is started in either versions. It is
important that we offload the bonding. We don't want to use the standard linux
bonding. That is why we think that bonding over different HCA's is not going
to work. Is this assumption correct?<BR><BR>Is bonding possible when running
SDP? And VERBS?<BR><BR>Greetings<BR><BR>Koen<BR></FONT></P>*** Disclaimer
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