From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 17 01:07:09 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CB2116A406 for ; Sat, 17 Mar 2007 01:07:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kip.macy@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.227]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AB9F13C458 for ; Sat, 17 Mar 2007 01:07:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kip.macy@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s18so695421wxc for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2007 18:07:08 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Kf4GPcvbnRYQ+3RkDp2ees+nPtQCxLACETVkjJTnZnNkixXI6jE4fezA2iMoUGsFotIgxR3dWtMr3leaXgGd82Jw3mCqbi0K6+YtgnCwkzGksGzA28y+DsCiJBdTbonEb3g2WDFdUgACLySmgMxq7mG8iNSn9BJZnpGfL8/QVPU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=OLFosNStSeWIZYERlSTl3Ab1qLXgsTONKTnp8wUw068Mr7lF4pUnLUDFQFg8OOxfQg9Ol3rMFxtIoLG29uypxAk7sZXDYfy3dJ1GChvYtFXHxoKqc92CuvRFChwI5gysOKP6ueJOjCAZezryDVDgrvLHUuz+1bGmHrNV/H+l1Vg= Received: by 10.90.79.6 with SMTP id c6mr2536273agb.1174093628412; Fri, 16 Mar 2007 18:07:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.90.25.1 with HTTP; Fri, 16 Mar 2007 18:07:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 18:07:08 -0700 From: "Kip Macy" To: "Achim Patzner" In-Reply-To: <1D8F7F7D-E49D-4DD7-927C-36CC195D44CC@bnc.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200703161159.37735.lists@jnielsen.net> <1D8F7F7D-E49D-4DD7-927C-36CC195D44CC@bnc.net> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: iSCSI boot mussings X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 01:07:09 -0000 On 3/16/07, Achim Patzner wrote: > On 16.03.2007, at 16:59, John Nielsen wrote: > > A truly standalone iSCSI client will most likely want to use a TOE > > card, which > > to the OS looks like any other SCSI adapter. (I'm unsure which if > > any such > > cards are currently supported in FreeBSD, but that's a tangential > > question.) > > Maybe someone feels like playing with these: http://www.myri.com/ > Myri-10G/10gbe_solutions.html There are at least a half dozen if not a dozen HBA iSCSI initiators. The only gating factor is price. A pxebooted ramdisk image with an iSCSI software initiator in it is probably the best way to go for most people. I don't think that there is a FreeBSD driver for any of the current hardware iSCSI HBAs. -Kip