On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 01:46:47PM -0500, Steve Wise wrote:

> Yes.  Perusing the drivers/scsi/cxgb3i code I see the iscsi ipaddr is  
> actually stored in the port_info struct which is hung of the netdev_priv  
> of the cxgb3 device.  It is set by cxgb3i_host_set_param() which is part  
> of the iscsi transport interface.

I wonder how does neighbor discovery, routing, etc work with iscsi?

> I just think the customer looses when we add iwarp-specific tools,  
> ipaddrs, subnets, etc etc.  And what about software iwarp?  Will it use  
> the host stack tools and not these new tools?  So then we end up with 2  
> sets of tools for iwarp devices. :(

Well, maybe you can get netdev to agree on some way to create an
interface that has all the IP services, but no TCP protocol binding?
Then the configuration could be largely the same. If you could share
that with the iscsi world then maybe it isn't so bad?

Jason
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