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

[Chris Worley]

On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 5:39 AM, Hal Rosenstock
<hal.rosenstock at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 ?

One server w/ 4QDR boards, 16 clients with one QDR board.  I want each
port on the server routed/zoned to two clients.

> If so,
> you can do this with partitioning

What is partitioning?

> (which will also affect your IPoIB
> subnets).

I don't need the subnets... I was trying to use them to effect
routing, which didn't work.

> I'm not sure what the bonding implications are of
> partitioning though.

I can't use bonding w/ the RHEL5.2 IB drivers.

Thanks,

Chris
> -- Hal
>
>> Chris
>