On 02/21/2012 04:39 PM, Or Gerlitz wrote: > On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 12:33 AM, Mike Christie <michaelc@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> This is network based. ICMP pings. The stuff we have today is iscsi >> based pings. So you can do some basic network diag type of stuff. > > So what's wrong with plain ICMP pings... or is this is for > cards/drivers which don't expose plain network interface to the > kernel? Yeah, the latter. There is a network driver for the card, but the networking stack is completely different for the 2 functions. The network driver is a normal old net device driver. Then for the iscsi function they basically have a complete network stack in fw. The networking settings for the 2 functions are going to be separate. So the iscsi function port has a different ip and MAC than the network driver one. The ip could then be on different subnets, different vlans, etc. So you might not be able to reach the target from the normal network driver net device. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
