[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?
> 
> Indeed the old and the new ways are not mutually exclusive, however,
> as I see it, the name of the game here is why add noise? over Ethernet
> no one would ever never consider to add a weird  script that does not
> use the standard tools to configure networking/bonding/etc. For some
> reason some people that run this thing called OFED neglect that simple
> everyday life fact so they (we, I should say, as at least both me and
> you are signed on this) invent this and that mechanisms.

OK, how about if OFED continues to support the old way to configure
IPoIB bonding, but we mark it as obsolete?

> In other word, the long answer is that OFED should go home,  the
> openibd service should go home, etc, along with this thing of
> configuring bonding through non standard means and the short answer is
> that there no point in configuring bonding through non standard means.

For the forseeable future OFED seems to me to be the fastest way to get
new IB hardware support (for example, ConnectX) into customer's hands.

Scott