User Application - Qlgc_Iscsiuio; Bind Iscsi Target To Qlogic Iscsi Transport Name - Qlogic FastLinQ 3400 Series User Manual

8–iSCSI Protocol
iSCSI Offload in Linux Server

User Application - qlgc_iscsiuio

Install and run the qlgc_iscsiuio daemon before attempting to create iSCSI
connections. The driver will not be able to establish connections to the iSCSI
target without the daemon's assistance.
1. Install the qlgc_iscsiuio source package
# tar -xvzf iscsiuio-<version>.tar.gz
2. CD to the directory where iscsiuio is extracted
# cd iscsiuio-<version>
3. Compile and install
# ./configure
# make
# make install
4. Check the iscsiuio version matches with the source package
# qlgc_iscsiuio -v
5. Start brcm_iscsiuio
# qlgc_iscsiuio

Bind iSCSI Target to QLogic iSCSI Transport Name

In Linux, each iSCSI port is an interface known as iface. By default, the open-iscsi
daemon connects to discovered targets using a software initiator (transport name
= tcp) with the iface name default. To offload the iSCSI connection to the CNIC
device, explicitly use the ifaces whose names have the prefix bnx2i. The bnx2i
ifaces are created automatically using the iscsiadm CLI utility as follows:
iscsiadm -m iface
for example:
linux-71lr:~ # iscsiadm -m iface
default tcp,<empty>,<empty>,<empty>,<empty>
bnx2i.00:17:a4:77:ec:3b
bnx2i,00:17:a4:77:ec:3b,<empty>,<empty>
bnx2i.00:17:a4:77:ec:3a
bnx2i,00:17:a4:77:ec:3a,<empty>,<empty>
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