User guide

3–InfiniBand
®
Cluster Setup and Administration
IPoIB Administration
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IPoIB Administration
Administering IPoIB
Stopping, Starting and Restarting the IPoIB Driver
QLogic recommends using the QLogic IFS Installer TUI or iba_config command to
enable autostart for the IPoIB driver. Refer to the QLogic InfiniBand
®
Fabric
Software Installation Guide for more information. For using the command line to
stop, start, and restart the IPoIB driver use the following commands.
To stop the IPoIB driver, use the following command:
/etc/init.d/openibd stop
To start the IPoIB driver, use the following command:
/etc/init.d/openibd start
To restart the IPoIB driver, use the following command:
/etc/init.d/openibd restart
Configuring IPoIB
QLogic recommends using the QLogic IFS Installer TUI, FastFabric, or
iba_config command to configure the boot time and autostart of the IPoIB
driver. Refer to the QLogic InfiniBand
®
Fabric Software Installation Guide for more
information on using the QLogic IFS Installer TUI. Refer to the QLogic FastFabric
User Guide for more information on using FastFabric. For using the command line
to configure the IPoIB driver use the following commands.
Editing the IPoIB Configuration File
1. For each IP Link Layer interface, create an interface configuration file,
/etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-NAME, where NAME is the value of the
NOTE
 The configuration must be repeated each time the system is rebooted.
 IPoIB-CM (Connected Mode) is enabled by default. The setting in
/etc/infiniband/openib.conf is SET_IPOIB_CM=yes. To use
datagram mode, change the setting to
SET_IPOIB_CM=no. Setting can
also be changed when asked during initial installation (./INSTALL).