[geeks] FreeBSD iSCSI question

[Shannon Hendrix]

I'm trying to get iscsi support working for $JOB, on FreeBSD 7.

Just need initiator (client) support at the moment.

It's going badly.  The initiator frequently just hangs up in the  
driver requiring a reboot to get out of it.

It not only does this while reading/writing to the target, but even  
sometimes during discovery.

The server is Solaris 10, and Windows and Solaris clients can use it  
just fine.  I don't find it particularly fast, but it works.

I'm using it over gigabit ethernet, which should be at least reasonable.

Does anyone know if FreeBSD iscsi is currently in a production ready  
state?

I've tried FreeBSD 7.1 and it is a little better, but not much, and  
the client still eventually gets hung in the driver.

I tried also running the target on FreeBSD, and while fairly easy to  
get started, twice I got a kernel panic in the scsi code.

Am I wasting my time, or is this likely something I can solve by  
changing how I do things?

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Shannon Hendrix
shannon at widomaker.com