On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 13:26, Greg Johnson wrote: > On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 01:08:54PM -0400, Hal Rosenstock wrote: > > On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 12:55, Greg Johnson wrote: > > > I actually want routes. > > > > OpenSM calculates the unicast and multicast routes and populates the > > (unicast and multicast) forwarding tables. > > > > > I have queried them with ibtraceroute and ibroute, > > > > ibroute dumps the forwarding tables and ibtracert traces the path from a > > source to a destination so these are displaying how OpenSM has setup the > > fabric which is a function of the routing algorithm chosen and the > > physical topology (which may be dynamic). > > > > > but we need routes for the whole fabric. > > > > Unicast, multicast, or both ? Just to look at ? There is no way to load > > these into OpenSM. > > At this point we are only interested in unicast routes. We would like > to be able to dump and load the forwarding tables.
You can dump them (via ibroute) just not load them. > We have a single 288 port switch chassis for our cluster. We would like to > be able to > load routes for two reasons. One is to be able to do testing with a > fixed set of routes. So the topology is fixed and no links ever fail ? > The other is that we would like to program our own > routes into the switches. Once the fabric is up, what are the requirements ? Do you need SA queries (e.g. PathRecords) to work ? > > > BTW, if you call ibtraceroute thousands of times it stops working. > > > > Any more info on how it fails ? What version of diags, the management > > libraries, and the kernel (including OpenIB svn if that is being used) > > are you using ? > > I'll have to make it fail again and get back to you. Thanks. -- Hal > > Thanks, > 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
