[Lustre-discuss] Multiple NICs per OST

[Isaac Huang]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:55:19AM -0800, Joshua Bower-Cooley wrote:
> Hi-
> I've had lustre running happily for some time over a single 10g ethernet NIC 
> per node. After switching to dual 10g and creating a new filesystem 
> (1.6.4.2), I'm seeing nothing but keep-alive packets with bad checksums.
> 
> What is the current "correct" way to do this now? The manual suggest not using 
> bonding, but several list postings now reccommend it. Without bonding, do I 
> need to have my 2 switches stacked, or will Lustre recognize the division in 
> my subnet?
> 
> LNET module options I've tried are:
> 1) networks="tcp0(eth2,eth3)"
> 2) ip2nets="tcp(eth2,eth3); tcp(eth2) 10.9.[1-4].*; tcp(eth3) 10.9.[5-8].*;"
> and many other variations

Please use Linux bonding. Specifying multiple NICs under one tcp
network is now a deprecated socklnd feature.

Isaac