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Date:      Mon, 2 Jul 2012 22:30:28 +0200
From:      Gergely CZUCZY <phoemix@harmless.hu>
To:        nickolasbug@gmail.com
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD ?
Message-ID:  <20120702223028.000067de@unknown>
In-Reply-To: <CAMgYTKtKW-zyM9FE8A6r0-Wfshbb4hPDWDLGDg6TrBAB5jWwwQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, 2 Jul 2012 21:25:58 +0300
nickolasbug@gmail.com wrote:

> >> Hmm, in my local testing we've been able to use the 40G mlxen(4)
> >> adapters fine with the OFED stack.  I believe we have also done a
> >> bit more involved testing on the IB side than just ping as well
> >> (at least RX and TX of UDP packets).
> >>
> > Well, it didn't work for us. We have the connext3 cards. And our
> > goal was making iscsi-over-RDMA and NFS-over-RDMA work. Though at
> > the end we've settled with linux and not using RDMA, because that's
> > kinda messy.
> >
> > When we've tried to do some testin with netcat, no packets were
> > transmitted really. They've got somewhere lost, there had been some
> > error message in the syslog, which i can't recall now. We felt like
> > the packets are getting lost somewhere between the OFED and the IP
> > stack.
> >
> 
> 
> Have you run subnet manager (e.g. opensm)?
> Infinband networks doesn't work without it.

Definitely. We have it running now, just with linux. We're not computer
illiterates, however also not kernel hackers.

> 
> 
> -------
> wbr,
> ξΙΛΟΜΑΚ




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