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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hi Florent,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thank you for the feedback. I have passed this onto the folks from Canonical (Ubuntu) that we were working with. They were very pleased and excited to be working with us during the OFA Interop event and learned a lot of the whole RDMA infrastructure.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Rupert<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Florent Parent [mailto:florent.parent@calculquebec.ca] <br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, November 02, 2012 7:07 PM<br><b>To:</b> Rupert Dance<br><b>Cc:</b> users@lists.openfabrics.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Users] Ubuntu Questions<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Hi Rupert,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Boot over IB is critical for us. IB is the only network interface to all our compute nodes (besides the ILOM).<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>DHCP over IPoIB is, well, implicit with the above :) (so yes, critical as well).<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Cheers,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Florent<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Rupert Dance <<a href="mailto:rsdance@soft-forge.com" target="_blank">rsdance@soft-forge.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Hello all,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>We are working with Canonical at the OFA Interop Event and they are working to fully support RDMA functionality on 12.4 and 12.10. They would like to get some feedback from the user community regarding the demand for the following features. Please let me know if you are using it or would you find this useful if it was fully supported.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p>1.<span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span>DHCP over IPoIB<o:p></o:p></p><p>2.<span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span>Boot over IB<o:p></o:p></p><p>3.<span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span>Interface renaming – for example change ib0 to Storage-Cluster or change eth2 to eth3<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Thanks<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#888888'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#888888'>Rupert<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>_______________________________________________<br>Users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Users@lists.openfabrics.org">Users@lists.openfabrics.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users" target="_blank">http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>