Could you please send the output of netstat -nr on both head and compute node ?
no problem obfuscating the ip of the head node, i am only interested in 
netmasks and routes.

Ralph Castain <r...@open-mpi.org> wrote:
>
>> On Nov 12, 2014, at 2:45 PM, Reuti <re...@staff.uni-marburg.de> wrote:
>> 
>> Am 12.11.2014 um 17:27 schrieb Reuti:
>> 
>>> Am 11.11.2014 um 02:25 schrieb Ralph Castain:
>>> 
>>>> Another thing you can do is (a) ensure you built with —enable-debug, and 
>>>> then (b) run it with -mca oob_base_verbose 100  (without the 
>>>> tcp_if_include option) so we can watch the connection handshake and see 
>>>> what it is doing. The —hetero-nodes will have not affect here and can be 
>>>> ignored.
>>> 
>>> Done. It really tries to connect to the outside interface of the headnode. 
>>> But being there a firewall or not: the nodes have no clue how to reach 
>>> 137.248.0.0 - they have no gateway to this network at all.
>> 
>> I have to revert this. They think that there is a gateway although it isn't. 
>> When I remove the entry by hand for the gateway in the routing table it 
>> starts up instantly too.
>> 
>> While I can do this on my own cluster I still have the 30 seconds delay on a 
>> cluster where I'm not root, while this can be because of the firewall there. 
>> The gateway on this cluster is indeed going to the outside world.
>> 
>> Personally I find this behavior a little bit too aggressive to use all 
>> interfaces. If you don't check this carefully beforehand and start a long 
>> running application one might even not notice the delay during the startup.
>
>Agreed - do you have any suggestions on how we should choose the order in 
>which to try them? I haven’t been able to come up with anything yet. Jeff has 
>some fancy algo in his usnic BTL that we are going to discuss after SC that 
>I’m hoping will help, but I’d be open to doing something better in the interim 
>for 1.8.4
>
>> 
>> -- Reuti
>> 
>> 
>>> It tries so independent from the internal or external name of the headnode 
>>> given in the machinefile - I hit ^C then. I attached the output of Open MPI 
>>> 1.8.1 for this setup too.
>>> 
>>> -- Reuti
>>> 
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