[ofa-general] Infiniband back-to-back without OpenSM?

[Sasha Khapyorsky]

On 08:24 Wed 28 May     , Hal Rosenstock wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 10:31 -0400, Talpey, Thomas wrote:
> > In addition we needed to install
> >         libmthca
> > which in turn wanted
> >         libibverbs
> 
> AFAIK, there is no OpenSM requirement for these libraries.

Right, it is not needed. Actually it looks like a bug in OFED's
install.pl script.

> > And, after we successfully loaded it all and started opensm, etc,
> > then ipoib wouldn't come up to RUNNING because it couldn't join
> > the broadcast group.
> 
> This was likely due to IPoIB needing to be enabled on the default
> partition.

The default partition is enabled by default.

Sasha