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- Make sure there's more than one router in the system and that they can handle the load if one router is decommissioned
- If you want the router not to be used immediately after it comes back up, remove the routes pointing to that router from both the clients and the servers
- Unload Lnet modules on the router to be reconfigured.
On the nodes connected to and configured to use this router,
Code Block lnetctl route show -v 4
should show that the router is down or if you have removed the routes using that router, then it should no longer appear in the list.
Remote LNet ping should succeed because other routers should get used instead:Code Block lnetctl ping <remote nid>
- Make changes to the decommissioned router configuration and bring it back online.
- If you've removed the routes to that router in step 1a, then re-add them.
On the nodes connected to and configured to use the router,
Code Block lnetctl route show -v 4
may show that the router is still down. In that case, rediscover the router:
Code Block lnetctl discover <router nid>