Centos Infiniband

switch status

When the service opensm is running

[root@centos2 bin]# <input>iblinkinfo</input>
Switch 0x00066a00e3003007 QLogic 12300 GUID=0x00066a00e3003007:
           2    1[  ] ==( 4X 10.0 Gbps Active/  LinkUp)==>       4    1[  ] "QLogic kernel.org driver DKAMA1" ( )
           2    2[  ] ==( 4X 10.0 Gbps Active/  LinkUp)==>       5    1[  ] "QLogic kernel.org driver node1" ( )
           2    3[  ] ==( 4X 10.0 Gbps Active/  LinkUp)==>       1    1[  ] "QLogic kernel.org driver node2" ( )
           2    4[  ] ==( 4X 10.0 Gbps Active/  LinkUp)==>       6    1[  ] "QLogic kernel.org driver (none)" ( )
           2    5[  ] ==( 4X 10.0 Gbps Active/  LinkUp)==>       3    1[  ] "QLogic kernel.org driver (none)" ( )
           2    6[  ] ==(                Down/   Sleep)==>             [  ] "" ( )
           2    7[  ] ==(                Down/   Sleep)==>             [  ] "" ( )
           2    8[  ] ==(                Down/   Sleep)==>             [  ] "" ( )
           2    9[  ] ==(                Down/   Sleep)==>             [  ] "" ( )
<notice>...OUTPUT OMITTED...</notice>

iperf

Installing iperf you need to add the repository rpmforge-extras which is disabled by default.

rpm --import http://apt.sw.be/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt
wget http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.i686.rpm
rpm -K rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.*.rpm
rpm -i rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.*.rpm
yum install iperf