From 23fa18335d8e5c1d4ddf149bff471e639f46ba19 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mike Christie Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 10:49:37 -0500 Subject: docs: fix up described behavior for iface binding and discovery The README said that we auto bind all ifaces in /etc/iscsi/ifaces but we only autobind ones with the transport name tcp. --- README | 16 ++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) (limited to 'README') diff --git a/README b/README index 454e1c3..1f1d9fc 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -482,12 +482,16 @@ not use the iface specified. So if you are using a offload card, you will need a seperate network connection to the target for discovery purposes. *This will be fixed in the next version of open-iscsi* -When you run iscsiadm to do discovery, it will check for interfaces -in /etc/iscsi/ifaces and bind the portals that are discovered so that -they will be logged in through each iface. This behavior can also be overriden -by passing in the interfaces you want to use. For example if you had defined -two interface but only wanted to use one you can use the ---interface/-I argument: +For compatibility reasons, when you run iscsiadm to do discovery, it +will check for interfaces in /etc/iscsi/iscsi/ifaces that are using +tcp for the iface.transport and it will bind the portals that are discovered +so that they will be logged in through those ifaces. This behavior can also +be overriden by passing in the interfaces you want to use. For the case +of offload like with cxgb3i and bnx2i this is required because the transport +will not be tcp. + +For example if you had defined two interface but only wanted to use one +you can use the --interface/-I argument: iscsiadm -m discovery -t st -p ip:port -I iface1 -P 1 -- cgit v1.2.1