On 04:50 Thu 01 Nov , Hal Rosenstock wrote: > > Aside from value adds (proprietary extensions) which is an important and > large issue as all SMs vendors claim advantage from this and they are > not being opened up, there are the issues of routing algorithms (both > unicast and multicast), management, and consistency of data. These are > all different to varying degrees for each flavor. > > While I am aware of some customers requesting this, the IBTA does not > sanction this configuration. The MgtWG has produced a white paper on the > topic which is available on their web site.
Do you mean management interoperability white paper? > In fact, some areas of the > above are beyond the IBTA charter. If you feel strongly about this, I > suggest you get a like minded vendors and get as much of this > standardized as possible. IMO the place for this is the IBTA MgtWG. I see. Thanks for suggestion :) > > At least > > I am able to run OpenSM with Voltaire SM on one subnet. > > Define what you mean by run here ? What "experiments" have you > performed ? Nothing really special. I'm just running OpenSM on the subnet with Voltaire managed switches (where VoltaireSM is on). And I don't remember any big problems there (including handover, etc.). Never investigated interoperability issue in deep however. > Does Voltaire stand behind this as a supported configuration ? Not sure. > If not, > are there any plans to do so ? No idea, sorry :( Sasha _______________________________________________ general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
