[ofa-general] how do I take IB interfaces offline?

[Daniel Miles]

Well, that would work, but it fails, telling me the mlx4_ib module is in
use. I suspect this is because there are active RDMA connections on it,
which is the reason I want to bring it down (I¹m doing QA, I need to know
what happens if the card goes offline).


On 2/24/09 9:50 AM, "Cameron Harr" <cameron at harr.org> wrote:

> Have you tried /etc/init.d/openibd stop, or are you wanting something that
> doesn't shut down the whole IB system?
> 
> Daniel Miles wrote:
>>  how do I take IB interfaces offline? Hello, everyone. I wonder if anyone can
>> tell me how to take an IB interface offline on a running Linux (CENTOS 5 with
>> OFED 1.3.1) system? I can cause it to loose its IP address with ifdown but it
>> seems that the IP address is only involved in establishing new connections
>> and removing it doesn¹t prevent the device from fielding traffic on
>> established connections.
>>  
>> Does anybody know how this is done?
>> 
>> 
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