I have a bare stock Centos 5.4. (I've also tried updating to the iscsi- initiator-utils and kernel from 5.5) and I'm trying to get the bnx2i driver to work using iSCSI offload. Normal iSCSI over TCP works great, but I'd like to see if I can get better IOPS using the iSCSI offload.
Here are my steps that I've tried and the associated errors. Please help if possible... I still haven't heard anyone on this list getting it working. 1) Dell R610 with PCIe Dual port Broadcom card with iSCSI offload support enabled. eth6 has a hardware address of 00:10:18:48:f2:e8. Inside /var/lib/iscsi/ifaces, there is a file created called bnx2i. 00:10:18:48:f2:e9. The content of that file is: # BEGIN RECORD 2.0-871 iface.iscsi_ifacename = bnx2i.00:10:18:48:f2:e9 iface.net_ifacename = eth6 iface.hwaddress = 00:10:18:48:f2:e9 iface.ipaddress = 10.32.13.72 iface.transport_name = bnx2i # END RECORD eth6 is set to 10.32.13.70 2) Using a HP Lefthand target at 10.32.13.33, I initiate this command: iscsiadm -m discovery -t st -p 10.32.13.33 -I bnx2i.00\:10\:18\: 48\:f2\:e9 That returns: 10.32.13.33:3260,1 iqn. 2003-10.com.lefthandnetworks:rallytestbedstorage01:14435:dsc- loadtest-4 10.32.13.33:3260,1 iqn. 2003-10.com.lefthandnetworks:rallytestbedstorage01:14430:dsc- loadtest-2 10.32.13.33:3260,1 iqn. 2003-10.com.lefthandnetworks:rallytestbedstorage01:14432:dsc- loadtest-3 10.32.13.33:3260,1 iqn. 2003-10.com.lefthandnetworks:rallytestbedstorage01:14428:dsc- loadtest-1 Cool. I am able to discover my volumes on the target portal 3) iscsiadm -m node -l Logging in to [iface: bnx2i.00:10:18:48:f2:e9, target: iqn. 2003-10.com.lefthandnetworks:rallytestbedstorage01:14435:dsc- loadtest-4, portal: 10.32.13.33,3260] Logging in to [iface: bnx2i.00:10:18:48:f2:e9, target: iqn. 2003-10.com.lefthandnetworks:rallytestbedstorage01:14430:dsc- loadtest-2, portal: 10.32.13.33,3260] Logging in to [iface: bnx2i.00:10:18:48:f2:e9, target: iqn. 2003-10.com.lefthandnetworks:rallytestbedstorage01:14432:dsc- loadtest-3, portal: 10.32.13.33,3260] Logging in to [iface: bnx2i.00:10:18:48:f2:e9, target: iqn. 2003-10.com.lefthandnetworks:rallytestbedstorage01:14428:dsc- loadtest-1, portal: 10.32.13.33,3260] iscsiadm: Could not login to [iface: bnx2i.00:10:18:48:f2:e9, target: iqn.2003-10.com.lefthandnetworks:rallytestbedstorage01:14435:dsc- loadtest-4, portal: 10.32.13.33,3260]: iscsiadm: initiator reported error (4 - encountered connection failure) iscsiadm: Could not login to [iface: bnx2i.00:10:18:48:f2:e9, target: iqn.2003-10.com.lefthandnetworks:rallytestbedstorage01:14430:dsc- loadtest-2, portal: 10.32.13.33,3260]: iscsiadm: initiator reported error (4 - encountered connection failure) iscsiadm: Could not login to [iface: bnx2i.00:10:18:48:f2:e9, target: iqn.2003-10.com.lefthandnetworks:rallytestbedstorage01:14432:dsc- loadtest-3, portal: 10.32.13.33,3260]: iscsiadm: initiator reported error (4 - encountered connection failure) iscsiadm: Could not login to [iface: bnx2i.00:10:18:48:f2:e9, target: iqn.2003-10.com.lefthandnetworks:rallytestbedstorage01:14428:dsc- loadtest-1, portal: 10.32.13.33,3260]: iscsiadm: initiator reported error (4 - encountered connection failure) Output from /var/log/messages: Apr 16 14:12:03 dsc-loadtestdb-01 iscsid: Received iferror -1 Apr 16 14:12:03 dsc-loadtestdb-01 iscsid: cannot make a connection to 10.32.13.33:3260 (-1,11) Apr 16 14:12:05 dsc-loadtestdb-01 iscsid: Received iferror -1 Apr 16 14:12:05 dsc-loadtestdb-01 iscsid: cannot make a connection to 10.32.13.33:3260 (-1,11) Apr 16 14:12:07 dsc-loadtestdb-01 iscsid: Received iferror -1 Apr 16 14:12:07 dsc-loadtestdb-01 iscsid: cannot make a connection to 10.32.13.33:3260 (-1,11) Apr 16 14:12:09 dsc-loadtestdb-01 iscsid: Received iferror -1 Apr 16 14:12:09 dsc-loadtestdb-01 iscsid: cannot make a connection to 10.32.13.33:3260 (-1,11) And I can ping 10.32.13.72 (the iscsi offload nic ip address) for whatever that is worth. Any ideas? Any help would be much, much appreciated!! Tarun -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "open-iscsi" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/open-iscsi?hl=en.
