[Users] Software IB switch/router

[Robert LeBlanc]

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Thanks for the link. It looks like the routing is done by a Mellanox
device and not by a white-box device. I'm guessing the code would be
the enhancements to OpenSM to support IB routing.
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Robert LeBlanc
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On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 11:10 PM, Leon Romanovsky <leon at leon.nu> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 05:09:36PM -0600, Robert LeBlanc wrote:
>> If I wanted to do something stupid and create a white-box Infiniband
>> switch/router, is there some software that does that? Is it even
>> possible?
>
> As Kevin pointed below, Mellanox presented IB router [1] at the OFA16.
> The product is totally open-source and the code will be posted on
> linux-rdma list in the near future.
>
> [1]
> https://www.openfabrics.org/images/eventpresos/2016presentations/314IBRouterPrem.pdf
>
> Thanks.
>