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This chapter describes IP over IB protocol and includes the following sections:

See the 

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significance of prompts used in the examples in this chapter.

Configuring IPoIB requires that you follow similar steps to the steps used for configuring IP on an 
Ethernet network. When you configure IPoIB, you assign an IP address and a subnet mask to each HCA 
port. The first HCA port on the first HCA in the host is the ib0 interface, the second port is ib1, and so on.

To enable these IPoIB settings across reboots, you must explicitly add these settings to the networking 
interface startup configuration file. For a sample configuration file, see the 

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See your Linux distribution documentation for additional information about configuring IP addresses.