[openib-general] problems using the ipoib ha package of RH4 U3

[Vladimir Sokolovsky]

Please see below,

Regards,
Vladimir
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Or Gerlitz [mailto:ogerlitz at voltaire.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 2:01 PM
> To: Vladimir Sokolovsky
> Cc: openib-general at openib.org; dledford at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: problems using the ipoib ha package of RH4 U3
> 
> Vladimir Sokolovsky wrote:
> > The HA service (ipoib_ha.pl) is looking for "NO-CARRIER" in the "ip"
> > utility output.
> > Ipoib_ha.pl use an updated "ip" utility which is a part of 
> ipoibtools 
> > RPM and located under 'prefix'/utils directory.
> 
> OK, when using the ipoib_ha.pl in the ipoibtools rpm 
> framework things are working quite fine.
> 
> My understanding is that the difference being usage of the 
> ofed provided ip utility (/usr/local/ofed/bin/ip) vs the ip 
> utility that comes with the distro (/sbin/ip which on RH4 U3 
> comes with iproute-2.6.9-3).
> 
> So this iproute package lacks the reporting of "NO-CARRIER" 
> and you provide an ip util which does report that, correct?

Correct.

> 
>  From my experience on other systems "(ie SLES9 SP1 whre 
> /sbin/ip comes with iproute2-2.4.7-866.8) there are version 
> of the iproute package which does support reporting no carrier change.
> 
> Have you tried finding such one for RH4, ie iproute-2.X.Y-Z?

I didn't found updated iproute2 package for RH, so I included the latest
iproute2 from sourceforge into ipoibtools package.

> 
> Doug - maybe you can help here?
> 
> Or.
> 
> 
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