It's software based iSCSI, so the normal gigE NIC becomes the HBA. It sounds like a similar issue though.
- Hadrian
From: Glenn Walker [mailto:ggwalker@mindspring.com] Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 2:46 PM To: Hadrian Baron; toasters@mathworks.com Subject: RE: Cleaning up Messy SW iSCSI connections
Not using an HBA are you? We had similar problems with the QLogic 4050C HBAs. The TCP session would drop on the HBA and a reset would be required to get it going again.
________________________________ From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Hadrian Baron Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 1:28 PM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Cleaning up Messy SW iSCSI connections
Hello Toasters,
We have Snapdrive + MS iSCSI on a few boxes. I've noticed that once in awhile the iSCSI connection will become unavailable. If you browse the iSCSI front-end in Snapdrive, it will show unavailable where it would show the IP addresses for target & portal.
If you browse the iSCSI control panel, it shows a target that is "reconnecting", but you cannot disconnect it to properly re-establish the connection.
Does anyone have a way to properly clean up these connections? Typically disabling iSCSI / Snapdrive services, bouncing the box, and turning them up will let me re-establish, but this is painful.
If anyone is wondering, it's Snapdrive 4.2.1 + MS iSCSI 2.05.
Thanks all,
- Hadrian