the server side is NAT actually. soi am hitting snags as it scans the wan ip, finds the target, but as a NAT ip (local) not WAN ... so when I try to connect it fails.
Thank You, Ravi Brounstein Helpdesk Team Deus Machine, LLC http://www.deusmachine.com Tel. 877.840.6024 x 101 On Mar 10, 2011, at 12:13 PM, "Paul Koning" <[email protected]> wrote: > iSCSI over WAN doesn't make much sense. > > You're right, the discovery machinery sends IP addresses, which won't work if > the target is behind NAT. If you can tell the client to connect directory to > a configured target IP address, that might work. > > It sounds like your client side has NAT; I don't see why that would be a > problem. > > Still, you might want to change to some other protocol that's optimized for > WAN use. While in theory nothing prevents iSCSI from working there, it was > certainly never considered a reasonable scenario. > > paul > > On Mar 9, 2011, at 6:00 PM, ravi brounstein wrote: > >> Hey there, >> >> I have seen many places offering iSCSI storage over WAN. >> >> Currently I am using openfiler, and my question is what must be done >> to make iSCSI work in this way? >> >> Currently what I experience is that the iSCSI target shows up as the >> LAN address (I am behind NAT) so it fails to connect at the WAN >> address. > -- 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.
