[ipxe-devel] question on iSCSI boots

[Michael Brown]

On Wednesday 11 May 2011 04:50:23 Joe Landman wrote:
> May 10 23:13:09 crunch-r kernel: [682005.115635] iscsi-scst: Negotiated
> parameters: InitialR2T Yes, ImmediateData No, Ma
> xConnections 1, MaxRecvDataSegmentLength 1048576,
> MaxXmitDataSegmentLength 8192,
> May 10 23:13:09 crunch-r kernel: [682005.115644] iscsi-scst:
> MaxBurstLength 262144, FirstBurstLength 65536, DefaultT
> ime2Wait 0, DefaultTime2Retain 0,
> May 10 23:13:09 crunch-r kernel: [682005.115650] iscsi-scst:
> MaxOutstandingR2T 1, DataPDUInOrder Yes, DataSequenceIn
> Order Yes, ErrorRecoveryLevel 0,
> May 10 23:13:09 crunch-r kernel: [682005.115657] iscsi-scst:
> HeaderDigest None, DataDigest None, OFMarker No, IFMark
> er No, OFMarkInt 2048, IFMarkInt 2048
> May 10 23:13:09 crunch-r kernel: [682005.115665] iscsi-scst: Target
> parameters set for session 1176e23270040: QueuedComm
> ands 32, Response timeout 30, Nop-In interval 30
> May 10 23:13:10 crunch-r kernel: [682005.353412] iscsi-scst:
> ***ERROR***: Connection with initiator iqn.2010-04.org.ipxe
> 
> :36168950-879f-4d56-8263-6bf5b4c63c11 unexpectedly closed!
> 
> Not sure what the error is about, other than the initiator closing.
> 
> Any hints as to how/where to debug?  I'd really like to set up the iso
> booting at some point.

Try disabling NOP-In on the iSCSI target.  iPXE currently supports only NOP-
Ins sent to update CmdSN; if the target is sending a NOP-In as a ping request 
then iPXE will close the connection.

(Supporting NOP-In pings is somewhere on the todo list.)

Michael