Jagga - The Configuring Infiniband Connectivity page on lustre.org may also be helpful:
http://wiki.lustre.org/index.php/Configuring_InfiniBand_Connectivity Sheila Maxim V. Patlasov wrote: > Jagga, > > There is no any special process of enabling IB on linux. You just > install rpms from lustre.org (lustre + kernel + ib), reboot system and > look at 'ifconfig -a' output. If all went fine, you'll see 'ib0' > interface in the output and you can configure it with 'ifconfig ib0 > ...' in the same way as you configure eth0. As soon as it is 'up' and > has an IP-address assigned, you can run lustre over it. > > Another approach is to build all from sources. If you choose to do so, > the following link is useful: http://blogs.sun.com/atulvid/ > (kudos to Atul for detailed guidelines). > > Sincerely, > Maxim > > On 12/26/2009 05:13 AM, Jagga Soorma wrote: >> Hi Guys, >> >> I have another quick question. I will need to configure my >> infiniband interfaces and I guess the best method is to use the >> kernel-ib modules that lustre.org <http://lustre.org> provides >> instead of using the ones from the vendor. Is there any >> documentation that you can point me to that would help me configure >> these new interfaces? I am brand new to infiniband and don't have >> too much experience with this. I will be adding this to both a RHEL >> 5.3 and SLES 11 systems. >> >> Thanks in advance. >> -J >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Lustre-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Lustre-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss > _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
