On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 3:28 PM, Tom Ammon <[email protected]> wrote:
>  Okay, how about this.
>
> With ethernet and a linux server, I can set up up aliases (virtual IP
> addresses) and assign multiple IPs to a single NIC. Can this be done with an
> HCA and IPoIB?

Yes.

> For example, could I configure ib0:1 to be 192.168.0.1/24 and
> ib0:2 to be 10.0.0.1/24?

See linux/Documentation/infiniband/ipoib.txt on how to do this.

> I have tried this on a RHEL5 box and it doesn't seem to want to accept it,
> but I don't know if there is another piece somewhere that I need to
> configure.

The procedure is a little different. You'll need to create a child
interface (on a partition) first and then you will be able to
configure it as follows:

echo 0x8001 > /sys/class/net/ib0/create_child
ifconfig ib0.8001 ...

Note that you'll want the 0x8000 bit on for full membership.

-- Hal

> Tom
>
> On 7/12/2010 1:06 PM, Hal Rosenstock wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Hal Rosenstock
>> <[email protected]>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Tom,
>>>
>>> On 7/12/10, Tom Ammon<[email protected]>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>>   Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I have some basic questions about IB partitions.
>>>>
>>>> Can an HCA port belong to more than 1 partition at a time?
>>>
>>> Yes.
>>>
>>>> How do you configure partitions with opensm? From reading the opensmd
>>>> man page, it looks like you just create a file called
>>>> /etc/osm-partitions.conf, with port GUIDs and such, but is this current?
>>>
>>> The default location depends on how OpenSM is configured/built.
>>
>> I missed this the first time around:
>>
>> and yes, the syntax indicated is current.
>>
>> -- Hal
>>
>>>> I ask because according to the man page the opensm configuration file is
>>>> in /etc/opensm/ . Can you tell opensm where to look for the partitions
>>>> file?
>>>
>>> Yes, with either the -P option on the command line or
>>> partition_config_file line in the options file.
>>>
>>> -- Hal
>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Tom
>>>>
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