Are all the iSCSI nodes on the same broadcast segment? If there's no need to route to a different segment, then you don't need a gateway on that NIC. Where did you read that about iSCSI client connectivity suffering without a gateway? None of our iSCSI clients or targets have gateways configured and I've never seen any issues because of it.
Hope this helps, RS On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 11:36 AM, N Parr <npar...@mortonind.com> wrote: > 2008 server with a LAN pointing NIC and an ISCSI pointing NIC on separate > VLANS. Windows give you an warning if you have a gateway address set for > both. But from what I understand it's a bad thing as far as client > connectivity if you don't have the gateway entered on the ISCSI NIC. So > should I bother setting a higher metric on the LAN facing nic or just let > windows figure it out? The ISCSI connector is using IP's and forced out > over the ISCSI NIC so DNS doesn't come in to play there. > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
