The mechanism for persistent bonding configuration under OFED 1.2 does

not let one to use bonds containing special chars such as '.' or '-'.

This patch documents this and also provide an example of using a
bond that enslaves child interfaces.

signed-off-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@voltaire.com>

diff --git a/ipoib_release_notes.txt b/ipoib_release_notes.txt
index ed7f47b7e613d9f99aa37ecd66a5fbf6253ea16c..07ef1e8b63fe8c03b82d9612c35c4352d25cbddc 100644 (file)
--- a/ipoib_release_notes.txt
+++ b/ipoib_release_notes.txt
@@ -236,15 +236,17 @@ Edit the file '/etc/infiniband/openib.conf' as follows:
                # Enable the bonding driver on startup.
                IPOIBBOND_ENABLE=yes
                # # Set bond interface names
-               IPOIB_BONDS=bond0,bond1
+               IPOIB_BONDS=bond0,bond8007
                # Set specific bond params; address and slaves
-               bond0_IP=10.10.10.1
+               bond0_IP=10.10.10.1/24
                bond0_SLAVES=ib0,ib1
-               bond1_IP=20.10.10.1
-               bond1_SLAVES=ib2,ib3,ib4
+               bond8007_IP=20.10.10.1
+               bond1_SLAVES=ib0.8007,ib1.8007
 
 Notes:
 * The ib-bonding driver does not load when the HA service is configured to load
 * If the bondX name is defined but one of bondX_SLAVES or bondX_IPs is missing,
   then that specific bond will not be created.
+* The bondX name must not contain characters which are disallowed for bash
+  variable names such as '.' and '-'