On Oct 18, 2007, at 9:24 AM, Marcin Skoczylas wrote:
> PML add procs failed
> --> Returned "Unreachable" (-12) instead of "Success" (0)
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> ----
> *** An error occurred in MPI_Init
> *** before MPI was initialized
> *** MPI_ERRORS_ARE_FATAL (goodbye)
Yoinks -- OMPI is determining that it can't use the TCP BTL to reach
other hosts.
> /I assume this could be because of:
>
> $ /sbin/route
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref
> Use
> Iface
> 192.125.17.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0
> 0 0 eth1
> 192.168.12.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0
> 0 0 eth1
> 161.254.0.0 * 255.255.0.0 U 0
> 0 0 eth1
> default 192.125.17.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0
> 0 0 eth1
192.125 -- is that supposed to be a private address? If so, that's
not really the Right way to do things...
> So "narrowly scoped netmasks" which (as it's written in the FAQ)
> are not
> supported in the OpenMPI. I asked for a workaround on this newsgroup
> some time ago - but no answer uptill now. So my question is: what
> alternative should I choose that will work in such configuration?
We haven't put in a workaround because (to be blunt) we either forgot
about it and/or not enough people have asked for it. Sorry. :-(
It probably wouldn't be too hard to put in an MCA parameter to say
"don't do netmask comparisons; just assume that every IP address is
reachable by every other IP address."
George -- did you mention that you were working on this at one point?
> Do you
> have some experience in other MPI implementations, for example LamMPI?
LAM/MPI should be able to work just fine in this environment; it
doesn't do any kind of reachability computations like Open MPI does
-- it blindly assumes that every MPI process is reachable by every
other MPI process.
--
Jeff Squyres
Cisco Systems
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