Dynamic Iscsi Boot Configuration - Broadcom NetXtreme-C User Manual

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2. Select ESC to return to the Main menu.
3. From the Main menu, select Initiator Parameters.
4. From the Initiator Parameters screen, enter values for the following:
– IP Address (unspecified IPv4 and IPv6 addresses should be "0.0.0.0" and "::", respectively)
– Subnet Mask Prefix
– Default Gateway
– Primary DNS
– Secondary DNS
– iSCSI Name (corresponds to the iSCSI initiator name to be used by the client system)
NOTE:
Enter the IP address. There is no error-checking performed against the IP address to check for duplicates or
incorrect segment/network assignment.
5. Select Esc to return to the Main menu.
6. From the Main menu, select 1st Target Parameters.
NOTE:
For the initial setup, configuring a second target is not supported.
From the 1st Target Parameters screen, enable Connect to connect to the iSCSI target. Type values for the following
7.
using the values used when configuring the iSCSI target:
– IP Address
– TCP Port
– Boot LUN
– iSCSI Name
8. Select Esc to return to the Main menu.
9. Select Esc and select Exit and Save Configuration.
10. Select F4 to save the MBA configuration.

10.2.4.2 Dynamic iSCSI Boot Configuration

In a dynamic configuration, specify that the system's IP address and target/initiator information are provided by a DHCP
server (see IPv4 and IPv6 configurations in
with the exception of the initiator iSCSI name, any settings on the Initiator Parameters, 1st Target Parameters, or 2nd Target
Parameters screens are ignored and do not need to be cleared. For IPv6, with the exception of the CHAP ID and Secret,
any settings on the Initiator Parameters, 1st Target Parameters, or 2nd Target Parameters screens are ignored and do not
need to be cleared. For information on configuration options, see
NOTE:
When using a DHCP server, the DNS server entries are overwritten by the values provided by the DHCP server.
This occurs even if the locally provided values are valid and the DHCP server provides no DNS server information.
When the DHCP server provides no DNS server information, both the primary and secondary DNS server values
are set to 0.0.0.0. When the Windows OS takes over, the Microsoft iSCSI initiator retrieves the iSCSI Initiator
parameters and configures the appropriate registries statically. It overwrites whatever is configured. Since the
DHCP daemon runs in the Windows environment as a user process, all TCP/IP parameters have to be statically
configured before the stack comes up in the iSCSI Boot environment.
If DHCP Option 17 is used, the target information is provided by the DHCP server, and the initiator iSCSI name is
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retrieved from the value programmed from the Initiator Parameters screen. If no value was selected, then the controller
defaults to the name:
"Configuring the DHCP Server to Support iSCSI Boot" on page
Table 18 on page
33). For IPv4,
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