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font-family:Arial'>Hello,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I have a small confusion on the below scenario:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>I have two hosts and each is
having single port HCA<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Port from each HCA is directly
connected (No switch) with two ports on the same target<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>SM is running on each host.<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>I see that both the ports on
target gets assigned the same LID from different SMs running on different
hosts.<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Is it a valid configuration? Should target handle this case
having two ports with same LID?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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