[openib-general] Kickstart over OpenIB?

[Brian Long]

Hello,

I would like to know how difficult it would be to modify kickstart such
that it would work over Infiniband.  I've asked the Red Hat anaconda
developers about this and, as you can see in the attached email, they
believe IB only accepts netlink and no ioctls for network setup.  Is
this true?

I am a system admin testing OpenIB on RHEL 4 Update 3 beta which was
released a few days ago.  I was able to kickstart over my standard
Ethernet and all the IB drivers are loaded upon boot.

How difficult would it be to get Anaconda to be able to use an IB link
for kickstart such that a host's only connection to the outside world
was IB?

Thanks!

/Brian/
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