1.\" Copyright (c) 2007 Daniel Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> 2.\" All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 8.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 9.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 11.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 12.\" 13.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 14.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 15.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 16.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 17.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 18.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 19.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 20.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 21.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 22.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 23.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 24.\" 25.\" $FreeBSD: src/share/man/man4/iscsi_initiator.4,v 1.2 2007/07/24 18:08:16 brueffer Exp $ 26.\" 27.Dd August 24, 2009 28.Os 29.Dt ISCSI_INITIATOR 4 30.Sh NAME 31.Nm iscsi_initiator 32.Nd kernel driver for the iSCSI protocol 33.Sh SYNOPSIS 34To compile this driver into the kernel, 35place the following lines in your 36kernel configuration file: 37.Bd -ragged -offset indent 38.Cd "device iscsi_initiator" 39.Ed 40.Pp 41Alternatively, to load the driver as a 42module at boot time, place the following line in 43.Xr loader.conf 5 : 44.Bd -literal -offset indent 45iscsi_initiator_load="YES" 46.Ed 47.Sh DESCRIPTION 48The 49.Nm 50implements the kernel side of the Internet SCSI (iSCSI) network 51protocol standard, the user land companion is 52.Xr iscontrol 8 , 53and permits access to remote 54.Em virtual 55SCSI devices via 56.Xr cam 4 . 57.Sh SYSCTL VARIABLES 58.Bl -tag -width ".Va net.iscsi.n.targeaddress" 59.It Va debug.iscsi_initiator 60set the debug-level, 0 means no debugging, 9 for maximum. 61.It Va net.iscsi.isid 62the initiator part of the Session Identifier. 63.It "the following are informative only:" 64.It Va net.iscsi.driver_version 65the current version of the driver. 66.It Va net.iscsi.sessions 67the number of current active sessions. 68.It Va net.iscsi.n.targetname 69is the targe name of session 70.Em n . 71.It Va net.iscsi.n.targeaddress 72is the IP address of the target of session 73.Em n . 74.It Va net.iscsi.n.stats 75are some statistics for session 76.EM n 77.It Va net.iscsi.n.pid 78is the 79.Em "process id" 80of the userland side of session 81.Em n , 82see 83.Xr iscontrol 8 . 84.El 85.Sh FILES 86The 87.Nm 88driver creates the following: 89.Pp 90.Bl -tag -width ".Pa /dev/iscsi%dxx" -compact 91.It Pa /dev/iscsi 92used to create new sessions. 93.It Pa /dev/iscsi%d 94for each new session. 95.El 96.Sh SEE ALSO 97.Xr cam 4 , 98.Xr camcontrol 8 , 99.Xr iscontrol 8 100.Sh STANDARDS 101iSCSI RFC 3720 102.\" .Sh HISTORY 103.\" .Sh AUTHORS 104.Sh BUGS 105The lun discovery method is old-fashioned. 106