https://thebin.net/tags/ipoib/Recent content in Ipoib on the binHugoen-USMon, 08 Dec 2014 00:00:00 +0000https://thebin.net/2014/12/solaris-11-configure-ip-over-infiniband-devices/Mon, 08 Dec 2014 00:00:00 +0000https://thebin.net/2014/12/solaris-11-configure-ip-over-infiniband-devices/<p>In this article we will be going over the configuration of an infiniband interface with the IPoIB protocol on Solaris 11, specifically Solaris 11.2 (previous versions of Solaris 11 should work the same, however there have been changes in the ipadm and dladm commands).</p> <p>Identify Infiniband Datalinks</p> <p>First we need to identify the underlying interfaces of the infiniband interfaces.  In my case net2 and net3.</p> <div class="codeblock" data-lang="bash"> <div class="codeblock__bar"> <span class="codeblock__lang">bash</span> <button type="button" class="codeblock__copy" aria-label="Copy code"> <span class="codeblock__copy-label">Copy</span> </button> </div> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" class="chroma"><code class="language-bash" data-lang="bash"><span class="line"><span class="cl">dladm show-phys </span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">LINK MEDIA STATE SPEED DUPLEX DEVICE </span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">net1 Ethernet unknown <span class="m">0</span> unknown ixgbe1 </span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">net0 Ethernet up <span class="m">1000</span> full ixgbe0 </span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">net2 Infiniband up <span class="m">32000</span> unknown ibp0 </span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">net3 Infiniband up <span class="m">32000</span> unknown ibp1 </span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">net5 Ethernet up <span class="m">1000</span> full vsw0</span></span></code></pre></div> </div> <p>Another way to confirm the infiniband interfaces is to use the show-ib command.</p>