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

[Hal Rosenstock]

Ted,

On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 12:35 PM, Ted Wilcox (tewilcox)
<tewilcox at cisco.com> wrote:
> Attached is a text file (unix file format) with the port mappings.  As
> you surmised, the leaf chips are in slots 9, 10, 13, 14, and the spines
> are in 11, 12.  Our nomenclature is that the leaf cards are "Node" cards
> (Node 1 = Slot 9, Node 2 = Slot 10, etc.) and the spine cards are "Core"
> cards (Core 1 = slot 11, Core 2 = slot 12).

Is this only for TS270/Cisco 7008 ?

-- Hal

> I apologize for the somewhat goofy naming; it came from the early hardware design.
>
> If you're running the Cisco SM, we have recently released a pretty
> general-purpose network debugging/maintenance tool called FACT which may
> help you out
> (http://tools.cisco.com/support/downloads/go/Redirect.x?mdfid=279966112
> -- look under "Server Fabric Software").  It requires a cisco.com login,
> but not a support contract.
>
> -Ted.
>
> P.S. I don't generally keep up with ofa-general (my apologies), so
> please cc' me on any replies, flames, etc.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: general-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org
> [mailto:general-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org] On Behalf Of Charles
> Taylor
> Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 4:15 PM
> To: general-list
> Subject: Re: [ofa-general] Cisco 7008 Internal/External Port Mappings
>
>
> Nope.   Looks pretty much the same as ibnetdiscover without the "-
> g".    It would be really useful if it *did* work.  :)
>
> Thanks for the suggestion though.     I think we just may be stuck
> mapping it empirically.    I'm sure the pattern will become obvious
> quickly enough.
>
> Charlie Taylor
> UF HPC Center
>
> On Jul 10, 2008, at 5:36 PM, Hal Rosenstock wrote:
>
>> 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 mapping for Cisco but it may be out of date.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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