[ofa-general] Building IB SAN with Linux without switch

Dotan Barak dotanba at gmail.com
Sun Sep 20 23:04:31 PDT 2009


Hi.

On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 11:41 PM, Roberto Fichera <robyf at tekno-soft.it> wrote:
> Hi All in the list,
>
> I would like to know if it's possible to configure a linux server with 2
> or 3 HCAs, with 2 ports each, so that I can connect 4 or 6 nodes without
> using any switch in the middle. If possible, please show an example of the
> network configuration.

Yes, this is possible.

But please pay attention: Every port will be in a different Infiniband
subnet (from the local host point of view).

What do you plan to do with this setup?
(which SW/program to use?)

Dotan



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