[openib-general] IB Management Simulator

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 16:22, Eitan Zahavi wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Mellanox is willing to contribute its newly developed management
> simulator.

Great news.

> This simulator can be used to validate OpenSM and diagnostic tools
> that send and receive SMP and PM
> 
> MADs from the fabric. 
> 
> The simulator have an interface for clients to attach to a virtual IB
> node and send/receive mads to.
> 
> OpenSM has a vendor layer implementation that can talk to the
> simulator.
> 
> The software involved is made of two packages: 
> 
> IBDM - a generic data model describing the fabric
> 
> IBMgtSim - the simulator (an engine for dispatching mads, an SMA and
> PMA implementations).
> 
> As I'm ready to upload the code into OpenIB I wonder where it should
> fit in the tree?

How about under gen2/utils ? I presume these are userspace tools so
perhaps a userspace directory should be put under utils and then these 2
subdirectories under that. Just one man's opinion...

-- Hal

> 
> Eitan Zahavi
> 
> Design Technology Director
> 
> Mellanox Technologies LTD
> 
> Tel:+972-4-9097208
> Fax:+972-4-9593245
> 
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> 
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