[ewg] RE: [PATCH] document limitation of the persistent bonding configuration

[Tziporet Koren]

Done - but will be seen only if we do a new build

Tziporet 

-----Original Message-----
From: Or Gerlitz [mailto:ogerlitz at voltaire.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 4:40 PM
To: Tziporet Koren
Cc: Moni Shoua; ewg at lists.openfabrics.org
Subject: [PATCH] document limitation of the persistent bonding
configuration

The mechanism for persistent bonding configuration under OFED 1.2 does
not let one to use bonds containing special chars such as '.' or '-'.

This patch documents this and also provide an example of using a
bond that enslaves child interfaces.

signed-off-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz at voltaire.com>

--- ofed-docs.1-2/ipoib_release_notes.txt.orig	2007-06-26
16:46:28.000000000 +0300
+++ ofed-docs.1-2/ipoib_release_notes.txt	2007-06-26
16:53:24.000000000 +0300
@@ -236,15 +236,17 @@
 		# Enable the bonding driver on startup.
 		IPOIBBOND_ENABLE=yes
 		# # Set bond interface names
-		IPOIB_BONDS=bond0,bond1
+		IPOIB_BONDS=bond0,bond8007
 		# Set specific bond params; address and slaves
-		bond0_IP=10.10.10.1
+		bond0_IP=10.10.10.1/24
 		bond0_SLAVES=ib0,ib1
-		bond1_IP=20.10.10.1
-		bond1_SLAVES=ib2,ib3,ib4
+		bond8007_IP=20.10.10.1
+		bond1_SLAVES=ib0.8007,ib1.8007

 Notes:
 * The ib-bonding driver does not load when the HA service is configured
to load
 * If the bondX name is defined but one of bondX_SLAVES or bondX_IPs is
missing,
   then that specific bond will not be created.
+* The bondX name must not contain characters which are disallowed for
bash
+  variable names such as '.' and '-'