[ofa-general] can an ib-bonding slave work independently?

[Or Gerlitz]

Isaac Huang wrote:
> [...] bonding device over ib0 and ib2 worked well ib2 as an independent IPoIB device couldn't work 
> (ICMP pings failed). It was CentOS 5.3, with ib-bonding-0.9.0-28.

Generally speaking, assigning an IP address and hence a route entry to a slave is non recommended and doesn't come without pain, e.g see "Potential Sources of Trouble", section 8.1 "Adventures in Routing" of Documentation/networking/bonding.txt, so your problem might have nothing to do with IPoIB. What kernel does CentOS 5.3 comes with? you may be able to use the mainline bonding driver.

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