Re: iscsi initiator troubles [SOLVED]

[Stephen Borrill <netbsd%precedence.co.uk@localhost>]

On Mon, 17 Oct 2011, John Jaser wrote:
> I started noticing weird symptoms when increasing the MTU on the 
> secondary (iscsi) ethernet ports on the three systems - could not get a 
> stable environment unless using MTU of around 3100 or smaller. That led 
> me to suspect that the cheapie Realtek gig-E cards and/or RE driver that 
> were common to the two netbsd systems was the culprit.
>
> I replaced with three low-end Intel CT desktop adapters. Now, 9K MTU 
> works, and iscsi-initiator against iscsi_target now works well.

Cool, perhaps it's time to try jumbo frames myself as those are exactly 
the cards I use.

> I am 
> having problems with iscsi-initiator against istgt, but have not tried 
> the most current versions yet, and heard there may have been some 
> patches since 2/2011.

Yes, please try the version in pkgsrc HEAD (not in 2011Q3).

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Stephen