[ewg] [PATCH] ofed-docs: Add ib-bonding documentation
Moni Shoua
monisonlists at gmail.com
Thu Apr 26 03:39:37 PDT 2007
Add a section for ib-bonding.
Signed-off-by: Moni Shoua <monis at voltaire.com>
---
diff --git a/ipoib_release_notes.txt b/ipoib_release_notes.txt
index bce03d3..4249f1c 100644
--- a/ipoib_release_notes.txt
+++ b/ipoib_release_notes.txt
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ Table of Contents
3. Known Issues
4. DHCP Support of IPoIB
5. High Availability (HA) Service
+6. The ib-bonding driver
===============================================================================
1. Overview
@@ -149,3 +150,38 @@ The HA service may also be activated man
--with-multicast support applications that are using multicast
-v verbose output
+===============================================================================
+6. The ib-bonding driver
+===============================================================================
+The ib-bonding driver is a High Availability solution for IPoIB interfaces.
+It is based on the Linux Ethernet Bonding Driver and was adopted to work with
+IPoIB. ib-bonding package contains a bonding driver and a utility called
+ib-bond to manage and control the driver operation.
+The ib-bonding driver comes with the ib-bonding package (run rpm -qi ib-bonding
+to get the package information).
+
+Using the ib-bonding driver
+---------------------------
+The ib-bonding driver can be loaded manually or automatically
+
+1. Manual operaion:
+Use the utility ib-bond to stop/query/stop the driver. To get help about this
+utility, read the documentaion that comes with the ib-bonding package.
+
+2. Automatic operation:
+Edit file '/etc/infiniband/openib.conf' as follows:
+ # Enable the bonding driver on startup.
+ IPOIBBOND_ENABLE=yes
+ # # Set bond interface names
+ IPOIB_BONDS=bond0,bond1
+ # Set specific bond params; address and slaves
+ bond0_IP=10.10.10.1
+ bond0_SLAVES=ib0,ib1
+ bond1_IP=20.10.10.1
+ bond1_SLAVES=ib2,ib3,ib4
+
+Notes:
+* The ib-bonding driver doesn't load when the HA service is configured to load.
+* If bondX name is defined but one of bondX_SLAVES or bondX_IP is missing, then that
+ specific bond will not be created.
+
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