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

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 11:37 -0400, James Lentini wrote:
> >The closest thing is OpenSM run once mode but I think you've been
> >describing a b2b mini SM command which wouldn't be hard to
> >implement.
> 
> Unreleated to NFS/RDMA, I wrote a small kernel module that used MADs 
> to assign a lid, and then transitioned the port to ARMED and ACTIVE. 

Is this based on OpenIB/OpenFabrics kernel APIs ?

> This worked for enabling IB communication, but not IPoIB.

I think that IPoIB for b2b mode would be a relatively simple addition.

-- Hal