[Lustre-discuss] Problems mountine lustre thru an ib2ip gateway

[Andreas Dilger]

On Mar 11, 2008  13:27 -0500, Chad Kerner wrote:
>  	I am trying to mount a lustre filesystem thru an ib2ip gateway. 
> The MDS's have infiniband connections.  The client nodes are tcp/ip 
> connections.  I am able to route between the client nodes and the MDS's.
> 
> I have the following in /etc/fstab:
> abe-mds1 at o2ib0,abe-mds2 at o2ib0:/home/client      /abehome       lustre 
> _netdev,flock 0 0

You shouldn't be using IB (ko2iblnd) in this case at all.  Instead, just
use TCP (ksocklnd).

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.