Re: [ovs-discuss] ipoib with open vswitch

2010-04-27 Thread Trygve Sanne Hardersen
Sorry for not getting back to you earlier. I've now configured XCP without the Infiniband device as you suggested, and I'm manually routing traffic over this NIC. It seems to work fine. Many thanks for your help! Trygve On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 7:48 PM, Jesse Gross wrote: > On Tue, Apr 20, 201

Re: [ovs-discuss] ipoib with open vswitch

2010-04-20 Thread Jesse Gross
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Trygve Sanne Hardersen < try...@hypobytes.com> wrote: > > I'm running XCP on 2 physical machines configured as a pool. Each box > has two normal Ethernet NICs (with 6-byte HW addresses) and a single > Infiniband NIC (with a 20-byte HW address). > > My original plan

Re: [ovs-discuss] ipoib with open vswitch

2010-04-20 Thread Trygve Sanne Hardersen
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 7:05 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote: > It would probably not be too hard to modify OVS to support 20-byte MAC > addresses exclusively. Ok, however we do need both 6 and 20-byte together... > To support both sizes of MAC addresses would be more work.  I think that > it would amount t

Re: [ovs-discuss] ipoib with open vswitch

2010-04-19 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 05:51:20PM +0200, Trygve Sanne Hardersen wrote: > On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 1:09 AM, Ben Pfaff wrote: > > I don't think that changing ETH_ADDR_LEN will help. > > Yeah, that's my feeling as well. Do you have any idea how hard it will > be to support this? If someone can give

Re: [ovs-discuss] ipoib with open vswitch

2010-04-17 Thread Trygve Sanne Hardersen
On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 1:09 AM, Ben Pfaff wrote: > > OVS doesn't currently support MAC addresses longer than 6 bytes.  You > are the first person to ask about them, so there is no workaround. > > Does the Linux bridge support 20-byte MAC addresses? AFAICT no. I've tried using "bridge" networking

Re: [ovs-discuss] ipoib with open vswitch

2010-04-16 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 07:53:21PM +0200, Trygve Sanne Hardersen wrote: > I've looked a bit at the Open vSwitch source code and it seems to me like > MAC addresses longer than 6 bytes are not supported. Is this correct? If so, > is there a workaround for the issue? OVS doesn't currently support MA

[ovs-discuss] ipoib with open vswitch

2010-04-15 Thread Trygve Sanne Hardersen
Hi, I'm new to Open vSwitch, and I'm having problems getting it to work with the Xen Cloud Platform 0.1.1 (XCP) and IP over Infiniband (IPOIB). My setup is explained in detail here: http://xen.markmail.org/search/?q=ipoib#query:ipoib+page:1+mid:7zauvoz4oe75ezyj+state:results This is the Open vSw