On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 14:32 +0200, Sasha Khapyorsky wrote: > On 04:50 Thu 01 Nov , Hal Rosenstock wrote: > > > > Aside from value adds (proprietary extensions) which is an important and > > large issue as all SMs vendors claim advantage from this and they are > > not being opened up, there are the issues of routing algorithms (both > > unicast and multicast), management, and consistency of data. These are > > all different to varying degrees for each flavor. > > > > While I am aware of some customers requesting this, the IBTA does not > > sanction this configuration. The MgtWG has produced a white paper on the > > topic which is available on their web site. > > Do you mean management interoperability white paper?
Yes. > > In fact, some areas of the > > above are beyond the IBTA charter. If you feel strongly about this, I > > suggest you get a like minded vendors and get as much of this > > standardized as possible. IMO the place for this is the IBTA MgtWG. > > I see. Thanks for suggestion :) > > > > At least > > > I am able to run OpenSM with Voltaire SM on one subnet. > > > > Define what you mean by run here ? What "experiments" have you > > performed ? > > Nothing really special. I'm just running OpenSM on the subnet with > Voltaire managed switches (where VoltaireSM is on). And I don't remember > any big problems there (including handover, etc.). Never investigated > interoperability issue in deep however. What ULPs if any have you run across failovers and failbacks ? > > Does Voltaire stand behind this as a supported configuration ? > > Not sure. Let us know when you find out. I, for one, and I think there are others would be very interested in this. -- Hal > > If not, > > are there any plans to do so ? > > No idea, sorry :( > > Sasha > _______________________________________________ > 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
