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Two bridges

Taras_Shapovalov
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Hi guys,

We have faced with a requirement to setup two network bridges and include both MICs into the both networks (on each host of the cluster). Is it possible to implement such configuration with the latest MPSS?

Best regards,

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JJK
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As far as I know this is not possible using Linux bridging; you can only add an interface (eth0, wlan0, mic0) to a bridge once.

 

I would recommend against such a setup anyway , as it will kill (network) performance of your Phi's completely - a "normal" mic interface has an MTU of 64512 whereas a bridged interface would have an MTU of 1500 (or possibly 9000 if your network does jumbo frames). Not only does the smaller MTU size kill performance, also remember that in a bridge *ALL* traffic entering one bridged adapter is copied out to *ALL* other adapters - if you have a chatty network you'd be flooding the MICs with useless packets.

 

 

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Taras_Shapovalov
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Hi Jan,

Thanks for the answer.

There is no requirement in the discussed setup to allow job processes to communicate thru the bridges, so a high networking performance is not really needed.

Best regards,

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