From: Tziporet Koren Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 13:42:20 +0000 (+0200) Subject: Updates on Bonding X-Git-Url: https://openfabrics.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c699053cb7d427753f5d32f3987ec03949f16e2c;p=~tnikolova%2Fdocs%2F.git Updates on Bonding Signed-off-by: Moni Shoua Signed-off-by: Tziporet Koren --- diff --git a/ipoib_release_notes.txt b/ipoib_release_notes.txt index 3834379..f7a30da 100755 --- a/ipoib_release_notes.txt +++ b/ipoib_release_notes.txt @@ -198,29 +198,13 @@ Use the utility ib-bond to start, query, or stop the driver. For details on this utility, read the documentation for the ib-bonding package. 2. Automatic operation: - a. 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,bond8007 - # Set specific bond params; address and slaves - bond0_IP=10.10.10.1/24 - bond0_SLAVES=ib0,ib1 - bond8007_IP=20.10.10.1 - bond1_SLAVES=ib0.8007,ib1.8007 - b. Use standard OS tools (sysconfig in SuSE and sysconfig in Redhat) -to create a configuration that will come up with network restart. For details -on this, read the documentation for the ib-bonding package. + Use standard OS tools (sysconfig in SuSE and initscripts in Redhat) + to create a configuration that will come up with network restart. For details + on this, read the documentation for the ib-bonding package. Notes: -* 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 '-' * Using /etc/infiniband/openib.conf to create a persistent configuration is - deprecated and not recommended. Use it unless you have no other option and - prefer the standard way. It is not guaranteed that the first method will be - supported in future versions of OFED. + no longer supported =============================================================================== @@ -246,5 +230,11 @@ Notes: =============================================================================== 6. Bug Fixes and Enhancements Since OFED 1.3.1 =============================================================================== -- Refresh paths instead of flushing them on SM change events to improve +- IPoIB: Refresh paths instead of flushing them on SM change events to improve failover respond +- IPoIB: Fix loss of connectivity after bonding failover on both sides +- Bonding: Fix link state detection under RHEL4 +- Bonding: Avoid annoying messages from initscripts when starting bond +- Bonding: Set default number of grat. ARP after failover to three (was one) + +