[ofw] WinOF IPoIB fails with a subnet prefix other than the default

Hal Rosenstock hal.rosenstock at gmail.com
Sun May 10 03:44:44 PDT 2009


On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Sean Hefty <sean.hefty at intel.com> wrote:
>>If I change the subnet prefix to something like 2001000000000000 then I never
>>get IPoIB connectivity.  Whatever is happening, sometimes the system becomes
>>highly unresponsive, and  it also leans hard on the Linux system running the
>>subnet manager, making it very sluggish.  My intention is to use a router, but
>>problem happens even with no router on the subnet.
>
> Unlike the Linux stack, I'm not aware of any work done on the WinOF stack to
> support IB routers.  I'm not sure how much effort would be involved for this.

This also is used for multihomed hosts on separate subnets even
without the subnets being routed.

-- Hal

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