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    Infiniband cards with pfSense 2.2

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    • M Offline
      mir
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      Do you run a subnet manager either in software or in hardware (switch)?

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        Wordo
        last edited by

        No, they are direct attached, no opensm.

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          mir
          last edited by

          Even if you directly attach you will still need a subnet manager. Without subnet manager you will have no route. https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/understanding-the-infiniband-subnet-manager

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            Wordo
            last edited by

            Hmpf .. isn't there a package for FreeBSD or will I have to compile by myself? Thought that direct attach doesn't need opensm

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              mir
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              did you not build ofed?
              http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-infiniband/2013-February/000028.html

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                stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                Indeed is it not part of ofed?

                Looks useful: http://really.zonky.org/?p=2927

                Steve

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                  Wordo
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                  Sorry, my (foolish) fault :D Just compiled the Mellanox FreeBSD drivers.
                  Ok, I followed http://really.zonky.org/?p=2927 and made the world on my FreeBSD 10.1 build system.
                  Then I packed:

                  a usr/bin/opensm
                  a usr/bin/ibaddr
                  a usr/bin/ibnetdiscover
                  a usr/bin/ibping
                  a usr/bin/ibportstate
                  a usr/bin/ibroute
                  a usr/bin/ibsendtrap
                  a usr/bin/ibstat
                  a usr/bin/ibsysstat
                  a usr/bin/ibtracert
                  a usr/lib/libibcm.a
                  a usr/lib/libibcm.so
                  a usr/lib/libibcm.so.1
                  a usr/lib/libibcm_p.a
                  a usr/lib/libibcommon.a
                  a usr/lib/libibcommon.so
                  a usr/lib/libibcommon.so.1
                  a usr/lib/libibcommon_p.a
                  a usr/lib/libibmad.a
                  a usr/lib/libibmad.so
                  a usr/lib/libibmad.so.1
                  a usr/lib/libibmad_p.a
                  a usr/lib/libibsdp.a
                  a usr/lib/libibsdp.so
                  a usr/lib/libibsdp.so.1
                  a usr/lib/libibsdp_p.a
                  a usr/lib/libibumad.a
                  a usr/lib/libibumad.so
                  a usr/lib/libibumad.so.1
                  a usr/lib/libibumad_p.a
                  a usr/lib/libibverbs.a
                  a usr/lib/libibverbs.so
                  a usr/lib/libibverbs.so.1
                  a usr/lib/libibverbs_p.a
                  a usr/lib/libopensm.a
                  a usr/lib/libopensm.so
                  a usr/lib/libopensm.so.1
                  a usr/lib/libopensm_p.a
                  a usr/lib/libosmcomp.a
                  a usr/lib/libosmcomp.so
                  a usr/lib/libosmcomp.so.1
                  a usr/lib/libosmcomp_p.a
                  a usr/lib/libosmvendor.a
                  a usr/lib/libosmvendor.so
                  a usr/lib/libosmvendor.so.1
                  a usr/lib/libosmvendor_p.a

                  extracted on my pfSense and started opensm. But now I get:

                  Feb 13 08:43:25 443034 [2006400] 0x80 -> OpenSM 3.3.1
                  Entering DISCOVERING state

                  Feb 13 08:43:25 443142 [2006400] 0x02 -> osm_vendor_init: 1000 pending umads specified
                  Feb 13 08:43:25 443215 [2006400] 0x80 -> Entering DISCOVERING state
                  Feb 13 08:43:25 443238 [2006400] 0x02 -> osm_vendor_bind: Binding to port 0xf65214fffe63a411
                  Feb 13 08:43:25 445759 [2006400] 0x01 -> osm_vendor_bind: ERR 5426: Unable to register class 129 version 1
                  Feb 13 08:43:25 445765 [2006400] 0x01 -> osm_sm_mad_ctrl_bind: ERR 3118: Vendor specific bind failed
                  Feb 13 08:43:25 445768 [2006400] 0x01 -> osm_sm_bind: ERR 2E10: SM MAD Controller bind failed (IB_ERROR)

                  Error from osm_opensm_bind (0x2A)
                  Perhaps another instance of OpenSM is already running
                  Feb 13 08:43:25 445776 [2006400] 0x01 -> osm_sa_mad_ctrl_unbind: ERR 1A11: No previous bind
                  Exiting SM

                  There's a post around for missing files:

                  https://community.mellanox.com/thread/1364

                  Anyone know what files were missing (see list above)?

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                    mir
                    last edited by

                    Have you followed this: https://wiki.freebsd.org/InfiniBand

                    You might find some tips and tricks here: http://web.mit.edu/freebsd/head/contrib/ofed/management/

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                      mir
                      last edited by

                      btw. you have asserted that ps -ef |grep opensm gives zero hits?

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                        Wordo
                        last edited by

                        No hits, yes.

                        I've followed this http://really.zonky.org/?p=2927

                        Compared to the wiki I did not add to MYKERNEL:
                        options        SDP 
                        device        mthca

                        Is this really essential?

                        Wondering if I could download the OFED stuff from the link you posted and compile it to a prefix like /usr/local/ofed/ and copy the stuff to pfSense? (like on Linux)

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                          RobertFontaine
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                          … Thread Resurrection...

                          I'm building a home lab and looking at QDR infiniband within my rack and ethernet coming in from the outside (wan/lan)

                          I have the occassional need for very high bandwidth between my storage and my compute nodes.

                          Am I correct in understanding that pfSense can be compiled with IP over IB and can include a subnet manager?
                          Can pfSense concurrently route RDMA and IP over IB?  Does this question even make sense?

                          Would I be better off with a point to point connection between my storage node(s)/san and my compute nodes and/or adding a 4036 (4036E has a 10gb ethernet and subnet manager onboard but I'm poor) switch and effectively running both gigabit ethernet for ip traffic and QDR infiniband for NFS over RDMA?

                          Thanks,
                          Robert.

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                            Hello,

                            in normal Infiniband is used to build separate SAN networks that are connected over Infiniband NICs
                            that are attached to Infiniband switches to deliver around ~10 GBit/s or 40 GBit/s or 56 GBit/s or
                            attached directly from card to card. And this extra or separate network will be then connected to
                            the rest entire network over 10 or 40 GBit/s in usual. So why pfSense as a firewall should be
                            invited in this game? And why for so much money? A normal Mellanox SRx3 VPI card is able
                            to get for the cost of ~1300 € (dual Port NIC) and a switch for around ~6500 € and then this
                            construct will be able to delivers 56 GBit/s at each port! But there is no need of the firewall or
                            a separate router that is doing anything in this "game".

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                              RobertFontaine
                              last edited by

                              @BlueKobold:

                              Hello,

                              in normal Infiniband is used to build separate SAN networks that are connected over Infiniband NICs
                              that are attached to Infiniband switches to deliver around ~10 GBit/s or 40 GBit/s or 56 GBit/s or
                              attached directly from card to card. And this extra or separate network will be then connected to
                              the rest entire network over 10 or 40 GBit/s in usual. So why pfSense as a firewall should be
                              invited in this game? And why for so much money? A normal Mellanox SRx3 VPI card is able
                              to get for the cost of ~1300 € (dual Port NIC) and a switch for around ~6500 € and then this
                              construct will be able to delivers 56 GBit/s at each port! But there is no need of the firewall or
                              a separate router that is doing anything in this "game".

                              I am building a small compute network (single rack) 
                              Kvm/Centos / dual  xeon  / 4 xeon phi -    compute nodes
                              Kvm/Solaris / zfs  mirrored / striped ssds -  data server (San -  napp-it)

                              Remote VPN
                              Development VMs
                              LAMP,  misc servers smtp, ftp, etc…

                              Qdr infiniband -  cheap,  high bandwidth,  low latency
                              Ib/nfs/rdma

                              If pfsense can support ipoib and bridge wan to lan
                              then I don't have to buy a bridging switch in the short term.  I  will likely vm pfsense as well.

                              A Voltaire 4036 is relatively  inexpensive.

                              This is being done as a home basement  project,  low budget,  incremental build out....  Data mining,  machine learning,  parallel programming,  networking lab/sandbox, kaggle contests

                              Matlab,  pysci,  R, OpenMP,  openacc,  c++,  Fortran,  etc.

                              a few remote developers,  analysts,  VPN / ssh.

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