<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Sean Hefty <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sean.hefty@intel.com">sean.hefty@intel.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">>If I change the subnet prefix to something like 2001000000000000 then I never<br>
>get IPoIB connectivity. Whatever is happening, sometimes the system becomes<br>
>highly unresponsive, and it also leans hard on the Linux system running the<br>
>subnet manager, making it very sluggish. My intention is to use a router, but<br>
>problem happens even with no router on the subnet.<br>
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</div>Unlike the Linux stack, I'm not aware of any work done on the WinOF stack to<br>
support IB routers. I'm not sure how much effort would be involved for this.<br>
</blockquote></div><br><div>Thanks for the response, Sean. It would be nice to see routing added to WinOF, but that isn't what I'm trying to accomplish at the moment.</div><div><br></div><div>My big concern is to have WinOF systems attached to the same IB subnet as Linux systems that are able to do routing. In the immediate deployments I am working on, the WinOF systems would only communicate with systems on the local subnet. It seems like WinOF should work with any subnet prefix, even if it cannot support routing.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Maybe I have missed some setting that would let this work, which is why I'm hoping this posting will attract somebody with experience using non-default subnet prefixes.</div><div><br></div><div>Dave</div>