From: Matthew H. <ma...@da...> - 2007-01-03 16:27:01
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No, not yet. EMC is still looking into it the last I talked with them = before the holidays. I also can get it to work as you have as well. However, it seems to = start acting flakey (large 30-60+ second timeouts for disk activity) = under moderate to heavy I/O usage with the Linux iSCSI connections. I = don't have any physical documentation of this occurring other than = watching it stall (as it doesn't seem to be writing it to the logs) or = time to look into it further at the moment. I haven't experienced these issues with the Microsoft iSCSI initiators = under very similar usage patterns. At this point I've stopped using it = except for light use (and continued testing) on Linux until I feel more = confident in it working as I would expect. I apologize that I can't be of much help in this matter at the moment. -----Original Message----- From: lin...@li... = [mailto:lin...@li...] On Behalf Of = S=F8ren Hjarlvig Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 3:51 AM To: lin...@li... Subject: Re: [linux-iscsi-users] Connection to Discovery Address failed = [EMCAX150SCi on RHEL4] > I'm getting this error in my event logs almost precisely every 30 > seconds. The iscsi connection fails to the discovery address, and then > is immediately made again. >=20 > Dec 14 15:48:52 chlorine iscsid[19813]: Connection to Discovery = Address > 192.168.15.2 failed=20 > Dec 14 15:48:52 chlorine iscsid[19815]: Connection to Discovery = Address > 192.168.15.3 failed=20 > Dec 14 15:48:52 chlorine iscsid[19813]: Connected to Discovery Address > 192.168.15.2=20 > Dec 14 15:48:52 chlorine iscsid[19815]: Connected to Discovery Address > 192.168.15.3 >=20 > Does anyone have any ideas what I can do to remedy this? All RHEL4U4 > hosts that connect to this target exhibit this behavior, while the > windows hosts do not. Hello Matthew! Just wondering if you have found a solution ? I'm having the exact same problem on a debian sarge box (kernel 2.6.8-3-686-smp, SFNet iSCSI Driver Version ... 4:0.1.10, Dell/EMC AX150SCi): Jan 3 00:22:14 rocksteady iscsid[2408]: Connection to Discovery Address 10.10.1.10 failed Jan 3 00:22:14 rocksteady iscsid[2408]: Connected to Discovery Address 10.10.1.10 Jan 3 00:22:45 rocksteady iscsid[2408]: Connection to Discovery Address 10.10.1.10 failed Jan 3 00:22:45 rocksteady iscsid[2408]: Connected to Discovery Address 10.10.1.10 I have tried the Continuous=3Dno/yes option and setting the global idle timeout to something below 30 (20): iscsi-ls -c: *************************************************************************= ****** SFNet iSCSI Driver Version ... 4:0.1.10 ( 8-Oct-2004) *************************************************************************= ****** TARGET NAME : iqn.1992-04.com.emc:ax.fcnpr062301759.a0 TARGET ALIAS : HOST NO : 3 TARGET ADDRESS : 10.10.1.10:3260 SESSION STATUS : CONNECTION ON 10.10.1.10:3260 ESTABLISHED AT Tue Jan 2 23:20:45 2007 NO. OF PORTALS : 1 PORTAL ADDRESS 1 : 10.10.1.10:3260,1 SESSION ID : ISID 00023d000001 TSIH a197 TARGET CONFIGURATION KEYS : ------------------------- INITIAL R2T : Yes IMMEDIATE DATA : No HEADERDIGEST : NONE DATA DIGEST : NONE FIRSTBURSTLENGTH : 0 MAXBURSTLENGTH : 262144 MAXRECVDATASEGMENTLENGTH: initiator - 131072 target - 65536 LOGIN TIMEOUT : 15 AUTH TIMEOUT : 45 ACTIVE TIMEOUT : 5 IDLE TIMEOUT : 60 PING TIMEOUT : 5 *************************************************************************= ****** TARGET NAME : iqn.1992-04.com.emc:ax.fcnpr062301759.a1 TARGET ALIAS : HOST NO : 4 TARGET ADDRESS : 10.10.2.10:3260 SESSION STATUS : CONNECTION ON 10.10.2.10:3260 ESTABLISHED AT Tue Jan 2 23:20:45 2007 NO. OF PORTALS : 1 PORTAL ADDRESS 1 : 10.10.2.10:3260,2 SESSION ID : ISID 00023d000001 TSIH a198 TARGET CONFIGURATION KEYS : ------------------------- INITIAL R2T : Yes IMMEDIATE DATA : No HEADERDIGEST : NONE DATA DIGEST : NONE FIRSTBURSTLENGTH : 0 MAXBURSTLENGTH : 262144 MAXRECVDATASEGMENTLENGTH: initiator - 131072 target - 65536 LOGIN TIMEOUT : 15 AUTH TIMEOUT : 45 ACTIVE TIMEOUT : 5 IDLE TIMEOUT : 20 PING TIMEOUT : 5 *************************************************************************= ****** I think it's a bit strange that the first target (iqn.1992-04.com.emc:ax.fcnpr062301759.a0) seems to ignore the idle timeout setting. Anyway, I can access data on the SAN without any problems, it's just annoying with failed/connected messages filling up the log ;-) Best regards S=F8ren |