On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 06:58:39PM +0100, Wojciech Turek wrote: > Hi, > I am designing lustre file system that will be serving two separate > clusters. One of the clusters is old and uses Ethernet data network. > Second of the clusters is new and uses QDR IB data network. I would > like to equip each Lustre server (OSS, MDS) with single port ConnectX > IB card. Is it possible to configure lustre network to use the same > Infiniband interface (ib0) for serving both o2ib nodes and tcp/ip > nodes? > Will this work? > /etc/modprobe.conf > options lnet networks=o2ib(ib0),tcp(ib0)
Yes, and you'd need an IP router that forwards packets between client Ethernet and the server IPoIB network. Alternatively, you might set up an LNET router that forwards data between @tcp0 and @o2ib0, in which case the servers need not to have a tcp(ib0) interface. Isaac _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
