On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 08:15, Dotan Barak wrote:
> Keshetti Mahesh wrote:
> > In the case of a IB switch which is not running an IB subnet manager 
> > is there any
> > requirement of LID.
> > I mean, is there any situation where an IB switch will be addressed 
> > directly
> > (using LID) by SM or any other node after the subnet initialization is 
> > complete?
> >
> IB switches are not transparent and every IB switch should get a LID
> (at least one port of the switch is connected to the subnet).

Switch port 0 needs a LID. Switch external/physical ports do not get
them.

-- Hal

> It doesn't matter if the SM is being executed on this switch or not.
> 
> 
> Dotan

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