Can the bonding driver load balance IPoIB traffic across multiple interfaces at the same time?
Scott Weitzenkamp SQA and Release Manager Server Virtualization Business Unit Cisco Systems > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Moni Shoua > Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 12:44 AM > To: SEGERS Koen > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [ofa-general] infiniband > bonding/merging/aggregation with SDPand/or VERBS > > SEGERS Koen wrote: > Hi, > My answers below refer only to the ib-bonding package that > comes with OFED-1.2 > > > > Hi all! > > > > We are trying to bond two ports on 1 HCA so that we are > able aggregate > > the throughput. We are also interested in bonding ports of > different HCA's. > ib-bonding currently supports High Availability but not link > aggregation. > > > > Is this possible with the OFED driver? If so, can you give > the command? > > We know TopSpin has support for this feature. Sadly, Topspin has no > > driver that runs on our system (SLES 10). > > > > We currently installed OFED-1.2 of 20070306 and the stable OFED-1.1 > > driver, but we can't figure out how this bonding is started > in either > > versions. It is important that we offload the bonding. We > don't want to > > use the standard linux bonding. That is why we think that > bonding over > > different HCA's is not going to work. Is this assumption correct? > ib-bonding is based on standard Linux bonding with some > required changes to make it work with IPoIB. > > > > Is bonding possible when running SDP? And VERBS? > ib-bonding only works with IPoIB. > > > > Greetings > > > > Koen > > > > *** Disclaimer *** > > > > Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroep > > Auguste Reyerslaan 52, 1043 Brussel > > > > nv van publiek recht > > BTW BE 0244.142.664 > > RPR Brussel > > http://www.vrt.be/disclaimer > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------- > > > > _______________________________________________ > > general mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/general > > > > To unsubscribe, please visit > http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general > > > _______________________________________________ > general mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/general > > To unsubscribe, please visit > http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general > _______________________________________________ general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
