It probably does not make much sense to you but to people doing async replication over slow connection (WAN) to solve disaster recovery problem it does make a lot of sense. Names like Double-Take and StarWind come to mind.
-ichiro On Mar 10, 10:12 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.
