Lustre discuss - Jun 2009 - Infiniband routing question

This may be a dumb question but does Lustre routing over IB require IP over
IB?Erik
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Yes. IPoIB addresses (IPv4) are used in the NIDs and are used to map  
resource locations to the native IB addresses.  No actual data is sent  
over IPoIB, unless using the TCP LND rather than the native IB LND.

Kevin

On Jun 19, 2009, at 5:54 PM, Erik Froese <erik.froese at gmail.com> wrote:
> This may be a dumb question but does Lustre routing over IB require  
> IP over IB?
> Erik
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Ahh I see. Thanks a lot Kevin.

On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 6:16 PM, Kevin Van Maren <Kevin.Vanmaren at
sun.com>wrote:
> Yes. IPoIB addresses (IPv4) are used in the NIDs and are used to map
> resource locations to the native IB addresses.  No actual data is sent over
> IPoIB, unless using the TCP LND rather than the native IB LND.
>
> Kevin
>
> On Jun 19, 2009, at 5:54 PM, Erik Froese <erik.froese at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
>  This may be a dumb question but does Lustre routing over IB require IP
>> over IB?
>> Erik
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