[openfabrics-ewg] [openib-general] OFED 1.1-rc1 is available
Roland Dreier
rdreier at cisco.com
Thu Aug 10 13:59:08 PDT 2006
James> Why don't you find it useful as an InfiniBand diagnosis
James> tool?
James> In the absence of IPoIB (and therefore ICMP pings), it can
James> be used to test connectivity.
Sure, but AFAIK the ibping userspace app (which is required to use it
anyway) has a server mode, so you don't need the kernel module. And
I'm hard pressed to imagine a situation where the SM could bring a
port up but ibping would show a problem.
Putting some non-standard network server into the kernel just for some
oddball debugging scenario doesn't seem worth it to me.
- R.
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