[openib-general] Question
Hal Rosenstock
halr at voltaire.com
Mon Feb 28 14:55:38 PST 2005
On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 17:46, Ronald G. Minnich wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Hal Rosenstock wrote:
>
> > OpenSM is responsible for initializing the fabric (and needs to work
> > with an uninitialized fabric).
>
> ??
>
> You mean, if you have an initialized fabric, opensm can't work?
No, I mean that OpenSM _has_ to work on an uninitialized fabric as it is
required to bring it from uninitialized to initialized.
> Is there useful material on the web that explains this? I keep looking for
> good technical docs on this stuff but keep finding stuff like "IB is the
> future" and "IB replaces fibrechannel" and "IB market is growing" but not
> the kind of good information I keep seeing on this list.
There are some good presentations on what an SM/SA needs to do. I will
see what I can dig up and post.
-- Hal
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