Jeff Squyres wrote: > On Feb 12, 2007, at 12:54 PM, Matteo Guglielmi wrote: > > >> This is the ifconfig output from the machine I'm used to submit the >> parallel job: >> > > It looks like both of your nodes share an IP address: > > >> [root@lcbcpc02 ~]# ifconfig >> eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:15:17:10:53:C9 >> inet addr:192.168.0.1 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask: >> 255.255.255.0 >> [root@lcbcpc04 ~]# ifconfig >> eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:15:17:10:53:75 >> inet addr:192.168.0.1 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask: >> 255.255.255.0 >> > > This will be problematic to more than just OMPI if these two > interfaces are on the same network. The solution is to ensure that > all your nodes have unique IP addresses. > > If these NICs are on different networks, than it's a valid network > configuration, but Open MPI (by default) will assume that these are > routable to each other. You can tell Open MPI to not use eth1 in > this case -- see this FAQ entries for details: > > http://www.open-mpi.org/faq/?category=tcp#tcp-multi-network > http://www.open-mpi.org/faq/?category=tcp#tcp-selection > http://www.open-mpi.org/faq/?category=tcp#tcp-routability > > Those nic "eth1" are not connected at all... all the machines use only the eth0 interface which have different IP for each PC.
Anyway you solved my problem suggesting me those FAQ entries!!! *--mca btl_tcp_if_exclude lo,eth1 that's the magic option which works for me!!! * Thanks Jeff!!! Thanks!!!! MG.
