Help to make iSER working

[Max Gurtovoy]

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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