From 0c2139b5f56708eb8122fa5db2f64e3e2dc120d5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tziporet Koren Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 17:52:02 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] Update from "Kuchimanchi, Ramachandra" --- VNIC.README | 32 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/VNIC.README b/VNIC.README index 65d88b3..18d4c21 100755 --- a/VNIC.README +++ b/VNIC.README @@ -1,3 +1,12 @@ +This is a technology preview release of the QLogic VNIC driver on OFED 1.2. +This driver is currently supported on Intel x86 32 and 64 bit machines with +Mellanox HCAs. Supported OS are RHEL 4 Update 3, RHEL 4 Update 4, SLES 10 +and the vanilla 2.6.19 kernel. + +The VNIC driver in conjunction with the QLogic Virtual Ethernet I/O gateway +(VEx) provides Ethernet interfaces on a host with IB HCA(s) without the need +for any physical Ethernet NIC. + This file describes the use of the VNIC ULP service on an OFED stack and covers the following points: @@ -96,16 +105,29 @@ C) Starting the VNIC driver and the VNIC interfaces Once you have created a configuration file, you can start the VNIC driver and create the VNIC interfaces specified in the configuration file with: +#/etc/init.d/openibd start + + +The VNIC driver is started by default as a part of openibd service. +(If openibd is configured to start on boot VNIC driver will also start on boot) +If you do not want to start the VNIC driver as a part of openibd service, set +VNIC_LOAD=no in /etc/infiniband/openib.conf -#/sbin/service ql_vnic start +You can stop the VNIC driver and openibd services with +#/etc/init.d/openibd stop -You can stop the VNIC driver and bring down the VNIC interfaces with +You can restart the VNIC driver and openibd service using +#/etc/init.d/openibd restart -#/sbin/service ql_vnic stop +After starting openibd service you can independently control the VNIC driver using ql_vnic service +To stop the VNIC driver you can use +#/etc/init.d/ql_vnic stop -To restart the VNIC driver, you can use +If you make changes to the VNIC configuration file and want the changes to be +reflected, you can restart the VNIC service independently, using +#/etc/init.d/ql_vnic restart -#/sbin/service ql_vnic restart +Note that it is required to start openibd service before using ql_vnic service D) Assigning IP addresses etc for the VNIC interfaces -- 2.46.0