On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 11:50:18PM -0800, Matt Leininger wrote:
> I have the ipath driver up, running, and working with IPoIB. I'm using
> 2.6.16 with svn 5938. The ipath_ether comes up as eth2. I can set the
> netmask and broadcast, but when I try to set the ip address for this
> device I get the following error:
Matt,
ipath_ether uses InfiniBand protocols but is not the same as IPoIB. So
it's better to ask [EMAIL PROTECTED] about it. (The reason we ship
it at all is that it's faster than IPoIB -- this necessitates a
different wire format -- and it behaves more like an ethernet device
than IPoIB.)
My guess is that you're trying to use it with ib_mad (the in-kernel
SMA). Do you see anything in /var/log/messages like "ipath_ether_open
timed out waiting for MLID"? The relevant entry in RELEASE-NOTES.txt
under the KNOWN LIMITATIONS section is:
* IPoIB and ipath_ether do not work together, as ipath_ether requires
the InfiniPath SMA, which needs to be disabled to use OpenIB. This
will be fixed in a future release.
Apologies for this not being more obvious.
-- greg
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