[ofa-general] Cisco 7008 Internal/External Port Mappings

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 17:27 -0400, Charles Taylor wrote:
> We've got a couple of Cisco 7008/Topspin 270 core switches.    Much of  
> the diagnostic and topology information we get from the ib diag tools  
> in OFED refer to the internal ports rather than the actual external  
> slot/port.

Does ibnetdiscover -g work ? There was some work done to do this mapping
for Cisco but it may be out of date.

-- Hal

>     We could deduce the mappings, I suppose, by tracing  
> cables and using ibtracert between nodes but that seems like a real  
> pain.    I was wondering if anyone on this list knows how that mapping  
> works.     The chassis itself consists of 8 "ib port" blades in the  
> front labelled as slots 1 - 8.   There are then six "fabric  
> controller" slots in the back of the chassis labelled 9 - 14.      
> Slots 11 and 12 are "special" as they hold the "master" and "standby  
> master" fabric controllers.
> 
> Seems like the FC's in slots 11 and 12 connect the the FCs in slots  
> 9,10,13,14 which in turn connect to the external port blades in slots  
> 1 - 8.
> 
> Again, all of the diagnostic information refers to the internal FC  
> ports and mapping those to the external ports (to which we actually  
> connect leaf switches) seems non-trivial.    I think there was even a  
> document somewhere that described the mapping.   We just can't find it  
> now.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Charlie Taylor
> UF HPC Center
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