[ofa-general] Re: [Bug 465] IPoIB CM HA fails after several hours of failures

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 03:36, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Michael S. Tsirkin [mailto:mst at dev.mellanox.co.il] 
> > > Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 12:05 AM
> > > To: Scott Weitzenkamp (sweitzen)
> > > Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin; general at lists.openfabrics.org; Roland 
> > > Dreier; bugmail at lists.openfabrics.org
> > > Subject: Re: [Bug 465] IPoIB CM HA fails after several hours 
> > > of failures
> > > 
> > > > This would be a good test for Mellanox, the developers of 
> > > this feature,
> > > > to run regularly.
> > > 
> > > The difficulty is that without managed switch we can't shut down
> > > specific ports easily. I'll try to think of something.
> > 
> > Quoting Scott Weitzenkamp (sweitzen) <sweitzen at cisco.com>:
> > Subject: RE: [Bug 465] IPoIB CM HA fails after several hours of failures
> > 
> > There's no way to shut down an IB switch port with opensm or any OFED
> > diags?  Yuck...
> > 
> > Scott 
> 
> Maybe something can be done with the opensm console.

A command could be added for this in the console but there is a separate
diag command which handles this.

> But I don't know where to find documentation for it.

The documentation is the help in the console. If there is a need, it
could also be added as a section in the man page.

-- Hal