On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 5:39 AM, Hal Rosenstock <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 11:01 PM, Chris Worley <[email protected]> wrote: >> I have a system w/ multipe IB cards, two ports each... I'm only >> getting ~1.6GB/s out per port, so I need to use multiple ports. >> >> I can't use IB bonding, as the scst package that I'm using that works >> reliably isn't compatible w/ OFED 1.4, but it performs very well w/ >> the RHEL5.2 built-in drivers... but bonding isn't supported in RHEL5.2 >> (afaik). >> >> I figured I could use IPoIB subnets and zone specific ports to >> specific clients/initiators... but the SM doesn't respect IPoIB routes >> (bring down a subnet's interface on the target, and the client can >> still ping one of the target's other interfaces, even though the >> client isn't configured on the same subnet). >> >> So I need to tell the SM to route specific ports on the server/target >> to specific clients/initiators. >> >> Is there any way to do this? > > Do you mean restrict access between certain clients/servers ?
One server w/ 4QDR boards, 16 clients with one QDR board. I want each port on the server routed/zoned to two clients. > If so, > you can do this with partitioning What is partitioning? > (which will also affect your IPoIB > subnets). I don't need the subnets... I was trying to use them to effect routing, which didn't work. > I'm not sure what the bonding implications are of > partitioning though. I can't use bonding w/ the RHEL5.2 IB drivers. Thanks, Chris > -- Hal > >> Chris > _______________________________________________ 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
