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

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 08:56 +0300, Sasha Khapyorsky wrote:
> 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.

T

> > > 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.

and so is ipoib on that partition (I forgot how this worked for the no
config file case) so the problem was something else (perhaps rate or MTU
mismatch if defaults were not adaquete for the b2b configuration ?).

-- Hal

> Sasha
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