On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 16:42 -0800, Greg Lindahl wrote: > 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.)
That's why I want to try it. :) I figured since the code was in OpenIB that this should go to this mail list. I'll cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] with any future issues. > > 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: That could be. I'll check. I thought ipath_ether was suppose to work when IPoIB was enabled. > > * 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. >From a previous email I thought IPoIB and ipath_ether would work together. http://openib.org/pipermail/openib-general/2006-March/018206.html > > Apologies for this not being more obvious. No problem. Thanks for the help. - Matt > > -- greg > > _______________________________________________ > openib-general mailing list > [email protected] > http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general > > To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general > _______________________________________________ openib-general mailing list [email protected] http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
