The following is the first public release of the PyX Technologies iSCSI Initiator Core Stack v1.6.1.20 for Linux 2.6.11-rc4. This is a full featured iSCSI Initiator stack that is capable of mulitplexing coast to coast across multiple independant backbone providers using various network transports _TODAY_. This is the first release of the core stack and assoicated userspace tools, the accompanying authentication daemon will be released shortly.
There is ongoing work in taking advantage of the very latest 2.6 kernel's SCSI functionality, namely drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_iscsi.c. The near term work for the iSCSI Initiator Core Stack includes taking advantage of these new abstractions in scsi_transport_scsi.c in a manner to reduce code duplication across the iSCSI Initiator Core Stack and linux-sfnet implementations. An initial patch to scsi_transport_scsi.c will be provided in order stay in line with the iSCSI Session/Connection contexts definied in section 12 of RFC 3720. Additionally this patch will add initial support for iSCSI Extentions for RDMA (iSER) optertional keys in order to help facilitate development of iSCSI with RDMA Capable Protocols (RCP) in the Linux 2.6 environment. The patch against 2.6.11-rc4 in diff format can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/nab/iscsi-initiator-core The assoicated userspace tools and documentation: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/storage/iscsi For more information on the Internet Small Computer Systems Interface (iSCSI) standard, please see: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3720.txt The iSCSI Initiator Core Stack contains, but is not limited to the following features: 1) Full support for Internet Small Computer Systems Interface (iSCSI) state machine as defined by RFC 3720. 2) Full support for ErrorRecoveryLevel=0 feature set as defined for RFC 3720. 3) Full support for Multiple Connections per Session that can be brought up and down on the fly. 4) Full support for DataPDUInOrder=No, DataSequenceInOrder=No, MaxOutstandingR2T>1. 5) Full support for Sync and Steering using Fixed Interval Markers. (See RFC 3720 Appendix A) 6) Full support for TCP and SCTP network transports. 7) Robust set of iSCSI Channel management options for iSCSI SAN Administrators. 8) Tested on UP/SMP 32/64-bit Big/Little Endian architectures. -- Nicholas A. Bellinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Chief Architect, PyX Technologies, Inc. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
