On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 11:04:02AM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 05:52:27PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > > > On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 10:39:32AM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 07:48:58PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > > > The open-iscsi fwparam tool does not connect through all the initiators > > > > in the initiator structure exported by the iBFT. > > > > > > > > I ask this because though the Nic fw can connect twice to the same > > > > target using both the initiators(Dual port card) but then the OS makes > > > > only one connection with the last(I hope I got this right) initiator > > > > with the Firmware boot selected flag set. > > > > > > > > Now, I would think we should have both ports(dual port NIC) with an iqn > > > > should be able to connect to a target portal and thus have two sessions > > > > to the same target portal. > > > > > > I think you are asking two questions here: > > > > > > 1). Should we connect to all portals listed in the iBFT irregardless if > > > some > > > of the flag. > > > > > > 2). Should we connect to the portals on both ports. > > > > > > > For example Equallogic iSCSI storage only has a single portal that you log > > into.. to the same portal from all ports/NICs (if using multipathing). > > Right. During discovery we learn of that - and I believe that the code picks > the target portal > IP, and then does a discovery and logs on the IPs associated with the target > portal. > > This meaning it should work fine with your setup. > > > > > That portal then does loadbalancing/redirection to some real interface.. > > Are we talking about the same issue that Shyam raised? >
Good question.. I was tired when I wrote that :) Anyway, I guess my point was that you might have the same target portal (IP) for both ports. Some storage has different target portal/IP per controller, and others do not.. -- Pasi --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "open-iscsi" group. To post to this group, send email to open-iscsi@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/open-iscsi -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
