[ovs-discuss] Does OpenVswitch support IP over Infiniband yet?

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Tue Jan 13 20:35:16 UTC 2015


On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 08:32:55PM +0000, Chris Beasley wrote:
> I've read a number of mailing list posts and forum posts regarding
> the use of IPoIB that seem to indicate a lack of support in
> Openvswitch for the mac address length.  Has this been changed in
> the newer versions?  I'm currently looking at infiniband HBAs for a
> cheap 10Gbps network in Xenserver but unless OVS has support for the
> cards then what I have read suggests it won't work well.

OVS doesn't have any special support for IP over Infiniband.



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