[ofa-general] IB switches: managed or not?

[James Lentini]

On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, Ira Weiny wrote:
>
> On Tue, 6 Mar 2007 08:47:00 +1100
> "Andrew Robbie (GMail)" <andrew.robbie at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > My other query is about diagnostic software. With an ethernet switch it is
> > pretty easy to fire up Ethereal (sorry Wireshark, but it is such a silly
> > name) or Etherape and get a look at what is going on. If I buy a Cisco or
> > Voltaire etc do they come with tools that let me get accurate
> > representations of what is going on? Or are their tools really for large IB
> > networks?
> 
> Their are some issues with diags.  However, I don't know of any product from
> any vendor which captures on the wire packets like Wireshark.  (But I could be
> wrong and would love to know about it if it was out there.)

CATC, now part of LeCroy, used to sell 1X and 4X InfiniBand network 
analyzers. They stopped selling these a few years ago, but they are 
now advertising them again on the LeCroy website:

http://www.lecroy.com/tm/products/ProtocolAnalyzers/infiniband.asp?menuid=62

They may be selling these again.