[Beowulf] IPoIB failure

[Chris Samuel]

On Wed, 28 Jan 2015 11:51:16 AM Peter Kjellström wrote:

> The problem is most easily demonstrated by restarting the SM and then
> bringing up new ipoib interfaces on 6.6 hosts. This creates islands of
> connectivity.

Hmm, we have managed switches and so we don't restart the SM's on them unless 
we have to do a complete power-out for the machine room, which is very rare.  
Could well explain why we're not seeing this problem!

All the best,
Chris
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