[Lustre-discuss] lctl ping between 1.8.1 1.8.2 protocol error

[Isaac Huang]

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 03:33:33PM +0100, Sebastian Reitenbach wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> in my test system I installed Lustre 1.8.2 from source on a opensuse 10.2 i386 
> (2.6.18.8-0.13-xenpaelustre) as a client. Other clients and the servers are 
> running 1.8.1 on SLES 11 x86_64 (2.6.27.39-0.3-xen-lustre)
> lctl ping to and from the client ends with a protocol error. The 1.8.2 client 
> can lctl ping himself, and also can mount the lustre filesystem:
> 
> client2:~ # lctl ping 10.0.0.81 at tcp
> failed to ping 10.0.0.81 at tcp: Protocol error

It's indeed harmless:
https://bugzilla.lustre.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21456

Isaac