[ofa-general] opensm: Unsupported attribute = 0xFF02

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 14:32 +0200, Sasha Khapyorsky wrote:
> On 04:50 Thu 01 Nov     , Hal Rosenstock wrote:
> > 
> > Aside from value adds (proprietary extensions) which is an important and
> > large issue as all SMs vendors claim advantage from this and they are
> > not being opened up, there are the issues of routing algorithms (both
> > unicast and multicast), management, and consistency of data. These are
> > all different to varying degrees for each flavor.
> > 
> > While I am aware of some customers requesting this, the IBTA does not
> > sanction this configuration. The MgtWG has produced a white paper on the
> > topic which is available on their web site.
> 
> Do you mean management interoperability white paper?

Yes.

> > In fact, some areas of the
> > above are beyond the IBTA charter. If you feel strongly about this, I
> > suggest you get a like minded vendors and get as much of this
> > standardized as possible. IMO the place for this is the IBTA MgtWG.
> 
> I see. Thanks for suggestion :)
> 
> > > At least
> > > I am able to run OpenSM with Voltaire SM on one subnet.
> > 
> > Define what you mean by run here ? What "experiments" have you
> > performed ?
> 
> Nothing really special. I'm just running OpenSM on the subnet with
> Voltaire managed switches (where VoltaireSM is on). And I don't remember
> any big problems there (including handover, etc.). Never investigated
> interoperability issue in deep however.

What ULPs if any have you run across failovers and failbacks ?

> > Does Voltaire stand behind this as a supported configuration ?
> 
> Not sure.

Let us know when you find out. I, for one, and I think there are others
would be very interested in this.

-- Hal

> > If not,
> > are there any plans to do so ?
> 
> No idea, sorry :(
> 
> Sasha
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