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| author | Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> | 2008-06-13 16:39:09 -0500 |
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| committer | Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> | 2008-06-13 16:39:09 -0500 |
| commit | 2d46c663c3496ae4d380b9e1d1fadd9f30113082 (patch) | |
| tree | a10d1320200627ae25102944b05140b3ecf528a2 /doc | |
| parent | 85c2dc3c2be8cfe6b1da8a54ae9d095875c468cb (diff) | |
| download | open-iscsi-2d46c663c3496ae4d380b9e1d1fadd9f30113082.tar.gz | |
Fix transport_name compat support.
This lists the default iface stuff as unstable and adds back support
for node.transport_name and iface.transport_name. We will not merge
Doran's patch for now because I just do not have time to deal with
regressions., but I am adding in a hack to make sure we
do not change the transport name while a session is running.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/iscsiadm.8 | 15 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/doc/iscsiadm.8 b/doc/iscsiadm.8 index 11f49e2..b488ad5 100644 --- a/doc/iscsiadm.8 +++ b/doc/iscsiadm.8 @@ -48,16 +48,12 @@ display help text and exit \fB\-I\fR, \fB\-\-interface\fI[iface]\fR The interface argument specifies the iSCSI interface to use for the operation. iSCSI interfaces (iface) are defined in /etc/iscsi/ifaces. For hardware -or offload, the iface config must have the hardware address (iface.hwaddress) +or the iface config must have the hardware address (iface.hwaddress) and the driver/transport_name (iface.transport_name). The iface's name is then the filename of the iface config. For software iSCSI, the iface config must have either the hardware address (iface.hwaddress), or the network -layer's interface name (iface.net_ifacename), or the IP address of the -NIC (iface.ipaddress), and it must have the driver/transport_name -(iface.transport_name). Note that for software iSCSI using specifying the -IP address does not bind the session through a specific NIC. We allow the -network layer to decide which NIC to use, but packets from this host will -use the address specific. +layer's interface name (iface.net_ifacename), and it must have the +driver/transport_name The available drivers/iscsi_transports are tcp (software iSCSI over TCP/IP), iser (software iSCSI over infinniband), or qla4xxx (Qlogic 4XXXX HBAs). The @@ -67,6 +63,11 @@ specific hardware resource and instead allow the network or infinniband layer to decide what to do. There is no need to create a iface config with the default behavior. If you do not specify a iface, then the default behavior is used. +As mentioned above there is a special iface name default. There are two others +bnx2i and iser, which does not bind the session to a specific card, but +will bind the session to either the bnx2i or iser transport. These are +experimental and the use is not supported as a stable interface yet. + In discovery mode multiple interfaces can be specific by passing in multiple -I/--interface instances. For example, |