Allied Telesis AT-2973SX, AT-2973T/4 manual Installing User Application bnx2id

AT-2973SX, AT-2973T, and AT-2973T/4 NetExtreme II Family Adapters Installation and User’s Guide

Installing User Application - bnx2id

When the bnx2i RPM package is installed, install the bnx2id application under /sbin. See “Installing the Source RPM Package” on page 68 for information. Run the bnx2id daemon before attempting to create iSCSI connections. The driver does not establish connections to the iSCSI target without the daemon's assistance.

bnx2id

The bnx2id daemon requires mknod and sh shell, which are standard on any regular server. For iSCSI boot using NetXtreme II offload support, binaries for mknod and sh need to be bundled into an initrd image.

Installing Open iSCSI User Applications

Install and run the open-iscsi programs, iscsid and iscsiadm, from the Broadcom distributed open-iscsi packages. See “Packaging” on page 67 for details. Before you can install the Broadcom iSCSI-supported packages, remove all pre-installed open-iscsi packages.

To install and run the iscsid and iscsiadm programs, do the following:

1.Remove all existing open-iscsi packages. RHEL5

rpm -e iscsi-initiator-utils

SLES10 SP1

rpm -e open-iscsi

2.Install the source RPM package by entering:

rpm -ivh <open-iscsi-package-name>.src.rpm

3.CD to the RPM path and build the binary driver for your kernel. Enter:

cd /usr/src/{redhat,OpenLinux,turbo,packages,rpm

..}

rpm -bb SPECS/<open-iscsi-package-name>.spec or

rpmbuild -bb SPECS/<open-iscsi-package-name>.spec (for RPM version 4.x.x)

Note

The RPM path is different for each Linux distribution.

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