[ofa-general] Re: [ewg] physically separate subnets (was: OFED March 24 meeting summary on OFED 1.4 plans)

[Jeff Squyres]

On Apr 3, 2008, at 10:52 AM, Hal Rosenstock wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 10:47 -0400, Jeff Squyres wrote:
>> In Open MPI, we require physically different ("air gapped") subnets  
>> to
>> have different subnet ID's so that we can compute reachability
>> correctly.
>
> Don't understand what the "air gapped" reference means.

There's no physical connection between the two -- there's an "air gap"  
between the networks (maybe it's a military term :-) ).

-- 
Jeff Squyres
Cisco Systems