On 2011. November 7. 01:20:21 Mike Christie wrote: > On 11/07/2011 12:24 AM, Székelyi Szabolcs wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'd like to exploit more than one Ethernet interface on the initiator > > side for improved performance and availablity. Actually what I want to > > do is to log in from all initiator interfaces to all target interfaces > > creating a full mesh of connections. The target side is OK, I can use > > the different IP addresses and IQNs assigned to different interfaces, > > but how can I instruct open-iscsi to use a specific interface on the > > initiator side for a particular connection? I tried creating multiple > > interfaces (-m iface -I <iface> -o new) and to create nodes with the > > new interface (-m node -I <iface> -o new) , but when I add the node > > with the same target IQN, same target IP, but different interface, it > > seems to silently overwrite the one already in the database. How can I > > achieve this? > You can do it at discovery time > > iscsiadm -m discovery -t st -p ip -I iface0 -I iface1 -I iface2... > or > iscsiadm -m discovery -t st -p ip -I iface0 > iscsiadm -m discovery -t st -p ip -I iface1 -o new > iscsiadm -m discovery -t st -p ip -I iface2 -o new > > or you can set it up manually > > // make sure for these commands you pass in the address:port,tpgt in > that format (like what you see when you iscsiadm -m node -P 1). If you > just pass in the address it will think you are doing old style commands > and only let you have one iface per portal. > > iscsiadm -m node -T target -p address:port,tpgt -I iface0 -o new > > iscsiadm -m node -T target -p address:port,tpgt -I iface1 -o new > > iscsiadm -m node -T target -p address:port,tpgt -I iface2 -o new
Thanks Mike. I'm not using discovery, but the manual method worked perfectly. -- cc -- 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 open-iscsi+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/open-iscsi?hl=en.
