[openib-general] Question

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 17:11, Yaron Haviv wrote:
> Ron, I believe netdiscover uses direct route MADs

So does OpenSM.

> So it can work also when the fabric is not fully initialized 

OpenSM is responsible for initializing the fabric (and needs to work
with an uninitialized fabric).

-- Hal

> Yaron
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: openib-general-bounces at openib.org [mailto:openib-general-
> > bounces at openib.org] On Behalf Of Ronald G. Minnich
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 12:07 AM
> > To: openib-general at openib.org
> > Subject: [openib-general] Question
> > 
> > 
> > If ibnetdiscover can do stuff like this:
> > hcaguids=0xc074660801c90200
> > Hca     2 "H-0002c901086674c0"          # MT23108 InfiniHost Mellanox
> > Technologies
> > [1]     "S-0002c90112c08b40"[2]         # lid 0 lmc 0
> > 
> > 
> > etc. etc.
> > 
> > i.e., probe all the way to the edge of the network and find things
> out,
> > what could be going on such that opensm won't work at all? I did an
> svn
> > update and complete rebuild friday. But opensm is still totally stuck.
> > 
> > I have power cycled all switches, and indeed the whole system. I did
> yank
> > (yet another) dead power supply on one mellanox switch, but still ..
> > ibnetdiscover is happy, and opensm is not.
> > 
> > opensm -r does not help.
> > 
> > I'm basically baffled. What is ibnetdiscover able to do that opensm is
> not
> > able to do?
> > 
> > thanks
> > 
> > ron
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