Lukas Razik wrote: > Hello! > > I'm very new to TIPC and I've some questions... Welcome!
> Is it possible to use TIPC with InfiniBand network cards? It's not possible to put TIPC directly on InfiniBand (IB) *now* because no TIPC release supports IB bearers. > If yes, how can I do that? Because if I try to enable an IB card by typing: > tipc-config -be eth:ib0 > then I get the error that this bearer could't be enabled. > > If it isn't possible to use IB cards, why? Someone would have to write the IB bearer code for TIPC. It's open source, you're free to do that yourself or look for someone else to do the work. also... If you have (or create) an ethernet over IB driver, then you could bind the existing TIPC stack to that. > I've seen that the IB cards also are based on the net_device struct in > the linux kernel. What's the main difference? Not sure. What's your intended use of TIPC/IB - just curious. // Randy ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ tipc-discussion mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tipc-discussion
