The code that discovers local interfaces specifically ignores any
interfaces that are not up or are just local loopbacks. My guess is
that the person who wrote that code long, long ago was assuming that
the sole purpose was to talk to remote nodes, not to loop back onto
yourself.
I
But why doesn't tcp work on loopback?
On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 07:25 -0700, Ralph Castain wrote:
> It is currently a known limitation - shared memory currently only
> works between procs from the same job. There is an enhancement coming
> that will remove this restriction, but it won't be out
It is currently a known limitation - shared memory currently only
works between procs from the same job. There is an enhancement coming
that will remove this restriction, but it won't be out for some time.
Ralph
On Jan 5, 2009, at 1:06 AM, Thomas Ropars wrote:
Hi,
I've tried to use
Hi,
I've tried to use ompi-server to connect 2 processes belonging to
different jobs but running on the same computer. It works when the
computer has a network interface up. But if the only active network
interface is the local loop, it doesn't work.
According to what I understood reading the
