Help to make iSER working

[Ben RUBSON]

Hi Max,

Thank you very much for your answer.
Is there any plan to add iSER target to FreeBSD ?

Thank you again,

Ben



> On 10 Aug 2016, at 22:51, Max Gurtovoy <maxg at mellanox.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Ben,
> 
> iSER initiator is supported in FreeBSD-11 but not the iser target.
> for the target you should use Linux target such as TGT (user space),
> Lio or SCST.
> 
> thanks,
> Max.
> 
> 
> On 8/10/2016 8:13 PM, Ben RUBSON wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I have some difficulties to make iSER (FreeBSD 11 BETA3) working.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> ### My configuration :
>> 
>> 2 servers with Mellanox ConnectX-3 NICs.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> ### What I did :
>> 
>> I rebuilt kernel adding the following to GENERIC :
>> options OFED
>> device mlxen
>> options COMPAT_LINUXKPI
>> 
>> I built iser :
>> cd /usr/src/sys/modules/iser/ ; make ; make install ; kldload iser
>> (I saw later-on that I could have used "device iser" in kernel configuration)
>> 
>> My /etc/ctl.conf :
>> portal-group pg0 {
>>  discovery-auth-group no-authentication
>>  listen 192.168.2.2
>>  offload iser
>> }
>> target iqn.2012-06.com.test:target1 {
>>  auth-group no-authentication
>>  portal-group pg0
>>  alias my-iser-disk
>>  lun 0 {
>>    path /dev/da8
>>  }
>> }
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> ### Error :
>> 
>> As soon as I do the following :
>> iscsictl -A -r -t iqn.2012-06.com.test:target1 -p 192.168.2.2
>> I get this error :
>> iscsid[1187]: 192.168.2.2 (iqn.2012-06.com.test:target1): failed to connect to 192.168.2.2 using ICL kernel proxy: ISCSIDCONNECT: Invalid argument
>> iscsid[655]: child process 1187 terminated with exit status 1
>> 
>> "sysctl hw.mlxen1.stat.tx_packets" on initiator shows that no packet is sent at all when trying to connect.
>> 
>> Did I miss something ?
>> 
>> Many thanks !
>> 
>> Ben
>> 
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