[ipxe-devel] iPXE, iscsi, isc-dhcp on FreeBSD 10.x

[Michael Brown]

On 26/03/16 17:30, pathiaki2 wrote:
> Registered SAN device 0x80
> Booting from SAN device 0x80
>
> And then it hangs right there... :-(
>
> At this point, has it completely switched over control to the iSCSI target?

Kind of.  It has transferred control to whatever code is present in the 
MBR on the iSCSI target.  That code will be making INT13 calls back into 
iPXE to read from the iSCSI target.

You can get some visibility by running wireshark to observe the iSCSI 
traffic, or by enabling DEBUG=int13:3 in iPXE (which will show you all 
of the INT13 commands issued to iPXE).

> kernel: WARNING: 192.168.0.21 (iqn.2010-04.org.ipxe:laptop1.test.net):
> no ping reply (NOP-Out) after 5 seconds; dropping connection
>
> I don't understand that error and I don't get target it's trying to get
> to.... iqn.2010-04.org.ipxe:laptop1.test.net.  Is that some type of
> initiator in iPXE?

If no explicit initiator name is given, then iPXE will construct an 
initiator name from the system hostname or UUID.  See 
http://ipxe.org/cfg/initiator-iqn for some documentation on this.

As for the NOP-Out: our iSCSI initiator doesn't support responding to 
NOPs.  You should probably disable this on the target side.

Michael