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Monday September 20, 2004

IPoIB Works!

Woot!!!

[root@nisus ~]# uname -a
SunOS nisus.SFBay.Sun.COM 5.10 s10_64 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-280R
[root@nisus ~]# netstat -nr
 
Routing Table: IPv4
  Destination           Gateway           Flags  Ref   Use   Interface
-------------------- -------------------- ----- ----- ------ ---------
192.168.0.0          192.168.0.78         U         1      6  ibd1
10.0.0.0             10.6.98.78           U         1  87102  eri0
224.0.0.0            10.6.98.78           U         1      0  eri0
default              10.6.98.1            UG        1      1  eri0
127.0.0.1            127.0.0.1            UH        8 292360  lo0
[root@nisus ~]# ping 192.168.0.233
192.168.0.233 is alive

[root@sins-stinger-10 root]# uname -a
Linux sins-stinger-10 2.6.9-rc2openib #3 SMP Mon Sep 13 10:40:38 PDT 2004 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[root@sins-stinger-10 root]# ping 192.168.0.78
PING 192.168.0.78 (192.168.0.78) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 192.168.0.78: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=1.21 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.78: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=0.130 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.78: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=0.125 ms
 
--- 192.168.0.78 ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2002ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.125/0.488/1.210/0.510 ms, pipe 2
[root@sins-stinger-10 root]# netstat -nr
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags   MSS Window  irtt Iface
10.6.98.0       0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U         0 0          0 eth0
192.168.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U         0 0          0 ib0.8001
169.254.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U         0 0          0 eth0
0.0.0.0         10.6.98.1       0.0.0.0         UG        0 0          0 eth0

So, what does all this mean? Well, it means that Linux/OpenIB and Solaris are configured on the same IB network and are able to talk to each other vi IPoIB. That is pretty cool. Thanks to Roland and Jeremy for all the help to make this first important compatibility step happen.

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