[openib-general] Add bonding suuport to OFED
Moni Shoua
monis at voltaire.com
Tue Jan 23 09:08:58 PST 2007
Originally, bonding is a High Availability solution for Ethernet network interfaces.
It is a module that implements a virtual network device (not bounded to
hardware) and enslaves "real" devices. Bonding device controls its slaves according
to the bonding policy and the slave's health.
I am adding a bonding device which is good for IPoIB interfaces. Feel free to install it
send comments.
You just have to build source RPM, rebuild it and install the binary.
For now, I have tested the module under RH4-UP3 and SLES10 with OFED-1.1.
HOW TO BUILD THE SOURCE RPM
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git clone git://staging.openfabrics.org/~monis/ofed-bond-pkg.git mydir
cd mydir/
./build_rpm.sh
./build_rpm.sh OR ./build_rpm.sh --git-url
After installing the binary RPM read the instructions in
/usr/local/ofed/docs/ib-bonding.txt
Note: Using ib-bonding requires applying a patch for IPoIB and replacing
ib_ipoib.ko. Please find the patch in the following message.
Please also note that the patch should be applied after
ipoib_8111_to_2_6_16.patch.
- MoniS
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