Re: Two types of initiator stacks

2020-01-13 Thread Bobby
Hi Donald, Thanks a lot ! That was a very nice explanation...Now the concept is clear to me :) ! On Friday, January 10, 2020 at 7:40:34 PM UTC+1, Donald Williams wrote: > > Hello, > You are very welcome. > > Also, iSCSI offload cards like the Broadcom (Now owned by Qlogic) are > typically

Re: Two types of initiator stacks

2020-01-10 Thread Donald Williams
Hello, You are very welcome. Also, iSCSI offload cards like the Broadcom (Now owned by Qlogic) are typically called "dependent hardware initiators'. Since it depends on connection to the OS network stack to make it fully functional. Otherwise, it behaves just like a standard NIC. Cards that

Re: Two types of initiator stacks

2020-01-10 Thread Bobby
ah OK thanks ! On Thursday, January 9, 2020 at 7:35:07 PM UTC+1, Donald Williams wrote: > > Hello, > > It is referring to iSCSI HBA cards like Broadcom BCM58xx/57xxx or just > using a standard NIC and the Software iSCSI adapter open-iSCSI provides. > > Regards, > Don > > > > On Thu, Jan

Re: Two types of initiator stacks

2020-01-09 Thread Donald Williams
Hello, It is referring to iSCSI HBA cards like Broadcom BCM58xx/57xxx or just using a standard NIC and the Software iSCSI adapter open-iSCSI provides. Regards, Don On Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 11:57 AM Bobby wrote: > Under section "How to setup iSCSI interfaces (iface) for binding" of > README,

Two types of initiator stacks

2020-01-09 Thread Bobby
Under section "How to setup iSCSI interfaces (iface) for binding" of README, there is this paragraph: " To manage both types of initiator stacks, iscsiadm uses the interface (iface) structure. For each HBA port or for software iscsi for each network device (ethX) or NIC, that you wish to bind