[Lustre-discuss] lustre o2ib without ib_ipoib

[Kevin Fox]

Is there any way to set the address explicitly, say though a
modprobe.conf entry, instead of having it probe the interface for it?
This cluster can not have IPoIB on it.

Thanks,
Kevin

On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 20:34 -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On Jun 23, 2008  11:44 -0700, David Brown wrote:
> > So does lustre work without having IP over IB enabled? I seem to be
> > having problems with this.
> >
> > LustreError: 8847:0:(o2iblnd.c:1569:kiblnd_startup()) Can't query
> > IPoIB interface ib0: it's down
> > LustreError: 105-4: Error -100 starting up LNI o2ib
> > LustreError: 8847:0:(events.c:707:ptlrpc_init_portals()) network
> > initialisation failed
> >
> > Our security plan for the box prevents us from having IP over the IB
> > is there any way to run lustre over the IB without IP like Quadrics
> > can?
> 
> The o2iblnd (as with all other IB LNDs) uses IPoIB addresses to
> identify
> nodes.  It doesn't use IPoIB to do any communication, however.
> 
> Cheers, Andreas
> --
> Andreas Dilger
> Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
> Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.
> 
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