Open MPI also now checks for 127.0.0.1/8 and skips them. This behavior will be
included in the upcoming Open MPI v1.4.2 (possibly within a few weeks?) and
Open MPI v1.5.0.
Two followup questions:
1. Is this now the recommended way to find all the IP interfaces that support
RDMA:
- loop over
On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 05:01:21PM -0500, Jeff Squyres wrote:
> 1. Is this now the recommended way to find all the IP interfaces that support
> RDMA:
>
> - loop over all local IP addresses
> - if 127.0.0.1/8, skip
> - try to rdma_bind_addr()
> - if it succeeds and verbs ptr is != NULL, it's an R
>1. Is this now the recommended way to find all the IP interfaces that support
>RDMA:
>
>- loop over all local IP addresses
>- if 127.0.0.1/8, skip
Include ipv6 in the checks.
>- try to rdma_bind_addr()
>- if it succeeds and verbs ptr is != NULL, it's an RDMA device
The intent is that rdma_bind_
