[openib-general] [RFC] IPoIB high availability daemon

[Roland Dreier]

    Vladimir> The daemon is a perl script ipoib_ha.pl that should get
    Vladimir> the primary and the backup IPoIB interfaces as a
    Vladimir> parameters (default values are ib0 as a primary and ib1
    Vladimir> as a backup).

Seems like a perl script that relies on the ip command is a little
heavyweight.  Why not a standalone program that uses rtnetlink?

    Vladimir> - Get configuration of the primary interface from its
    Vladimir> standard place (ifcfg-ib<N> from
    Vladimir> /etc/sysconfig/{network,network-scripts}).

This is not standard on all distributions.  It would be better to have
a more flexible method that worked on Debian/Ubuntu, etc.

 - R.

Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 12:41:25 -0700
In-Reply-To: <44E0B66A.4090605 at mellanox.co.il> (Vladimir Sokolovsky's message of "Mon, 14 Aug 2006 20:44:10 +0300")
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