Don,
Thanks a lot. This is extremely helpful.
Shoaib
On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 7:35 AM, Donald Williams <don.e.willi...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Part of the iSCSI protocol is recovering from different error conditions.
>
> https://www.ietf.org/proceedings/51/slides/ips-6.pdf
>
> That's link is the spec for it.
>
> On a connection reset, the initiator will go back to the Discovery
> address and attempt to log back in.
>
> Another key piece is Keep Alive Timeout (KATO) also known as NOOP-IN and
> NOOP-OUT.The iSCSI initiator and iSCSI Target periodically 'ping' each
> other. Sending a NOOP command. If acknowledged the connection stays
> alive. If the initiator doesn't get a reply it will drop the connection
> and try again. If the target doesn't get a reply it will close that
> connection. This should cause the iSCSI initiator to reconnect if it's
> still up. You see that often when you reboot server or target.
>
> iSCSI is very robust and well tested. Open-iSCSI is the standard iSCSI
> initiator for Linux platforms.
>
> The University of NH has a Compliance lab, with the test plans and test
> suite
>
> https://www.iol.unh.edu/testing/storage/iscsi/test-plans
>
> Here's some more info on compliance testing.
>
> https://www.snia.org/sites/default/files/files2/files2/
> SDC2013/presentations/TestingMethodologies/RonnieSahlberg_iscsi_testing.
> pdf
>
> Regards,
>
> Don
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 5:28 PM, Shoaib <raosho...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am new to iSCSI and dealing with an iSCSI recovery issue. I have a few
>> questions that hopefully the community can answer.
>>
>> 1) Is there an iSCSI initiator test suite which tests recovery?
>>
>> 2) Has open-iscsi initiator been tested for recovery and can I get access
>> to the results?
>>
>> 3) My understanding is that TUR is only issued once. What happens if for
>> whatever reason, say connection reset the TUR gets dropped. How does iSCSI
>> recovers?
>>
>> Thanks a lot,
>>
>> Shoaib
>>
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