Open Fabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED)
IPoIB in OFED 1.5.2 Release Notes
- August 2010
+ December 2010
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21. Under SLES11, if an IP configuration exists for an IPoIB interface
that later becomes a slave of a bonding master, a network restart
- doesn't erase the IP configuration from the slave and it appears to have
- an IP address even though the new configuration doesn't set one. This
+ does not erase the IP configuration from the slave and it appears to have
+ an IP address even though the new configuration does not set one. This
may cause problems when trying to use the bonded network interface. To
avoid this, restart the IB stack (openib restart) once you change the
configuration.
Notes:
* Using /etc/infiniband/openib.conf to create a persistent configuration is
no longer supported
-* On RHEL4_U7, cannot set a slave interface as primary.
+* On RHEL4_U7, a slave interface cannot be set as primary.
* ib-bonding will not be compiled and installed with OFED on an OS with kernel
that is >= 2.6.27 (e.g., SLES11). The bonding driver that comes with those
kernels already supports enslaving IPoIB interfaces. In addition, an OS
can come with an older kernel but with a patched bonding driver that also
- doesn't require modification (e.g., RHEL5.4). OFED will not replace the
+ does not require modification (e.g., RHEL5.4). OFED will not replace the
bonding module in such cases either.
However, there might still be issues with OS configuration tools (like
sysconfig or initscripts) that may need fixing, but such issues have not