***SPAM*** Re: [ofa-general] Any easy way to specify to the SM to route/zone?

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 11:01 PM, Chris Worley <worleys at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a system w/ multipe IB cards, two ports each... I'm only
> getting ~1.6GB/s out per port, so I need to use multiple ports.
>
> I can't use IB bonding, as the scst package that I'm using that works
> reliably isn't compatible w/ OFED 1.4, but it performs very well w/
> the RHEL5.2 built-in drivers... but bonding isn't supported in RHEL5.2
> (afaik).
>
> I figured I could use IPoIB subnets and zone specific ports to
> specific clients/initiators... but the SM doesn't respect IPoIB routes
> (bring down a subnet's interface on the target, and the client can
> still ping one of the target's other interfaces, even though the
> client isn't configured on the same subnet).
>
> So I need to tell the SM to route specific ports on the server/target
> to specific clients/initiators.
>
> Is there any way to do this?

Do you mean restrict access between certain clients/servers ? If so,
you can do this with partitioning (which will also affect your IPoIB
subnets). I'm not sure what the bonding implications are of
partitioning though.

-- Hal

> Chris