FreeBSD and iSCSI for disks.

[Danny Braniss]

> * Danny Braniss <danny at cs.huji.ac.il> [2009-04-08 15:54:25 +0300]:
> 
> > 
> > > Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> > > > Some friends of mine are looking at the new "DroboPro", which makes a
> > > > lot of disk space available via iSCSI (in addition to firewire 800),
> > > > and they were wondering how well iSCSI works with FreeBSD.  I haven't
> > > > paid attention to iSCSI support.  Is there anyone using it heavily
> > > > for disk-storage under FreeBSD?  Has there been much changed for
> > > > iSCSI support in the 8.x branch, or is 7.x support working fine?
> > > 
> > > I suppose you are interested in the "client" (initiator) side of iSCSI
> > > support. It hasn't changed much between 7.x and 8.x but there are
> > > apparently some announcements of a newer version:
> > > 
> > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-scsi/2009-March/003834.html
> > > 
> > > I can't find any more information on it.
> > the latest is in:
> > 	http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~danny/ftp/freebsd/iscsi-2.1.1.tar.gz
> 
> I install this to freebsd 7.1 i386.
> Target from zfs solaris 10 sparc64
> 
> 
> iscontrol -c /etc/iscsi.conf -n myiscsi
> Get loop creating da devices
> kill iscontrol don`t work, kill -9 don`t work too.
> kldunload -f iscsi_initiator.ko
> fail system after 10-15 second (celeron 2000)
> 
> What can i do to get more info or solve problem?
there is a newer version at:
	ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/users/danny/freebsd/iscsi-2.1.2.tar.gz
you will need to recompile iscontrol too.
run
	tcpdump -s512 port 3260 -w iscsi.cap
and send me the iscsi.cap.

cheers,
	danny