[Lustre-discuss] OFED - How to configure infiniband interface on Linux

Sheila Barthel Sheila.Barthel at Sun.COM
Sat Dec 26 09:39:10 PST 2009


Jagga -

The Configuring Infiniband Connectivity page on lustre.org may also be 
helpful:

http://wiki.lustre.org/index.php/Configuring_InfiniBand_Connectivity

Sheila

Maxim V. Patlasov wrote:
> Jagga,
>
> There is no any special process of enabling IB on linux. You just 
> install rpms from lustre.org (lustre + kernel + ib), reboot system and 
> look at 'ifconfig -a' output. If all went fine, you'll see 'ib0' 
> interface in the output and you can configure it with 'ifconfig ib0 
> ...' in the same way as you configure eth0. As soon as it is 'up' and 
> has an IP-address assigned, you can run lustre over it.
>
> Another approach is to build all from sources. If you choose to do so, 
> the following link is useful: http://blogs.sun.com/atulvid/
> (kudos to Atul for detailed guidelines).
>
> Sincerely,
> Maxim
>
> On 12/26/2009 05:13 AM, Jagga Soorma wrote:
>> Hi Guys,
>>
>> I have another quick question.  I will need to configure my 
>> infiniband interfaces and I guess the best method is to use the 
>> kernel-ib modules that lustre.org <http://lustre.org> provides 
>> instead of using the ones from the vendor.  Is there any 
>> documentation that you can point me to that would help me configure 
>> these new interfaces?  I am brand new to infiniband and don't have 
>> too much experience with this.  I will be adding this to both a RHEL 
>> 5.3 and SLES 11 systems.
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>> -J
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