Could this be a port forwarding issue? If the iscsi device lives outside the LAN, would it be possible to forward port 3260 at the router to allow the connection?
Jonathan On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 3:24 PM, ravi brounstein <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > -- 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.
