> What is running on your Internet links? OC-3? ethernet? ATM? There is > certainly technology that will bridge 10G ethernet and Infiniband (and > SAN for that matter). Mellanox, Voltaire, and Qlogic all make things > based upon Mellanox's BridgeX chip in various combinations. Infiniband > and 10G ethernet are inherently compatible with the Mellanox chipset. > Can you turn your dark fiber site link into a 10G?
> Qlogic 12400 > Mellanox BX4010 does FC 8G, IB QDR, and 10G in one box. > > Voltaire has a 36 port IB 2 port 10G solution for ~$28k list with the > Mellanox chipset. Thank you. Indeed I can get a router from the fibre to ethernet and then bridge ethernet to infiniband, but I would rather skip the 10GigE. (We got 10Gig internet connections at the moment, but then it will be more complicated to scale up in future. Some bonding required) As far as I understood the BridgeX chip it performs a translation from MAC addresses to HBA-IDs, doesn't it? I have no hands-on experience with the BridgeX chip, and find little technical information about it. So far, it looks as if this bridge needs ethernet-over-IB as coded into the infiniband cards' driver, isn't it? As the internet link is purely IP(v4 and v6) and I only need to route IP traffic I would prefer a "simple" router. Or is this not how one does it with Infiniband? ;) Conrad _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
