From 3495ca286c07420f3142905e73b0d6a5ea3892ae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tziporet Koren Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 17:37:35 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] 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 --- ipoib_release_notes.txt | 10 ++++++---- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/ipoib_release_notes.txt b/ipoib_release_notes.txt index ed7f47b..07ef1e8 100644 --- 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 '-' -- 2.46.0