InfiniBand

InfiniBand is a switched fabric communications link used in high-performance computing and enterprise data centers. Its features include high throughput, low latency, quality of service and failover, and it is designed to be scalable. The InfiniBand architecture specification defines a connection between processor nodes and high performance I/O nodes such as storage devices.

Kernel
Users of Mellanox hardware MSX6710, MSX8720, MSB7700, MSN2700, MSX1410, MSN2410, MSB7800, MSN2740, and MSN2100 need at least kernel 4.9.

The following kernel options must be activated:

IP over InfiniBand (IPoIB)
Users of InfiniBand can also use it to carry IP-networking packets, thus allowing it to replace ethernet in some cases. From at least kernel version 4.10 onwards users can compile IP-over-IB in-kernel (CONFIG_INFINIBAND_IPOIB). However if that's not the case and the support is compiled as kernel module it may be possible that the module isn't automatically loaded. The module is named ib_ipoib.

InfiniBand network interfaces are usually named as ib.