[ofa-general] ipoib bonding problems in 1.3-beta2 and 1.2.5.4,

[Scott Weitzenkamp (sweitzen)]

I would prefer to leave openib.conf alone.  The old way and new way are
not mutually exclusive, are they?

Scott

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Or Gerlitz [mailto:or.gerlitz at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 12:27 PM
> To: Scott Weitzenkamp (sweitzen)
> Cc: Or Gerlitz; Vu Pham; OpenFabrics General
> Subject: Re: [ofa-general] ipoib bonding problems in 
> 1.3-beta2 and 1.2.5.4,
> 
> On 12/6/07, Scott Weitzenkamp (sweitzen) <sweitzen at cisco.com> wrote:
> > > The persistency mechanism which you have used (eg through
> > > /etc/init.d/openibd and /etc/openib.conf) is there only for
> > > somehow OLD
> > > distributions for which there's no native (*) support for bonding
> > > configuration, actually I was thinking we wanted to remove it
> > > altogether, Moni?
> >
> > What is the "it" you want to remove?
> 
> Hi Scott,
> 
> The mechanism to specify bonding configuration params in 
> /etc/openib.conf
> to be input to /etc/init.d/openibd, namely:
> 
> IPOIBBOND_ENABLE=yes
> IPOIB_BONDS=bond0
> bond0_IP=11.1.1.1
> bond0_SLAVEs=ib0,ib1
> 
> I have talked to Moni, its only there to enable using bonding 
> in a persistent
> fashion on old distributions etc where the solution provided by OFED
> 1.3 is not possible.
> 
> So you are using network scripts for bonding configuration?
> 
> 
> 
> Or.
>