[ofa-general] RE: [ewg] RE: OFED 1.2 beta blocking bugs

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 09:51, Diego Guella wrote:
> From: "Roland Dreier" <rdreier at cisco.com>
> > Of course not all managed switches necessarily have an embedded SM,
> > just as managed ethernet switches have different feature sets (L2
> > vs. L3, etc).  In fact I was trying to tie this into the earlier
> > thread and say that the advantages of having a managed switch go
> > beyond having an SM, and it is useful to have a managed switch even if
> > you don't want an embedded SM.
> 
> I am particularly interested in managed switches, but I don't have 
> understood exactly what the definition of "managed" is.
> Can someone enlight me?

I think there are different levels of "managed" switches. This is no
standard definition for this term. There are those (managed) switches
which have things like MIBs and other diags built in (e.g. a local CPU,
perhaps an out of band network, a command line interface, etc.) and
others with a higher level of functionality which includes embedded SM
and additional management appplications support. The latter "class" can
be turned into the former class by disabling the SM.

> And, another question, this switch:
> Flextronics F-X430047: 24-port 4x DDR managed infiniband switch
> has an embedded SM?

I don't think so but I may be wrong. I think this is a CPU less
unmanaged switch.

-- Hal

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