[OpenAFS] iSCSI disk in vos listaddr

[Andrew Bacchi]

Ken Aaker wrote:
> It seems to me there is possibly some confusion of terminology here...
>
> There should be no way that the iSCSI target drives themselves should 
> be listed in the VLDB. If additional ethernet cards were added to the 
> server to connect to the iSCSI targets, they would be treated the same 
> as any other ethernet interface, since they're just carrying TCP/IP 
> traffic. If clients have viable routes to the added ethernet 
> interfaces in the server, the openafs traffic might reduce the 
> bandwidth available to the iSCSI connections, but other than that it 
> should work.
We are using routable addresses for iSCSI target disks, although I 
thought those addresses were being firewall restricted from user/client 
subnets.    So I guess they do qualify as viable routes.  Yes everything 
works properly, but some users are concerned, as you suggest, that 
performance will be affected if clients keep trying to use those addresses.

I have added a NetRestrict file to a newly built fileserver and in fact 
the iSCSI addresses are not showing as listed in the VLDB.  My problem 
remains to remove existing addresses.  Jeffery's solution, delentry and 
syncvldb, seems faster than moving volumes.  I'll set up the schedule 
for an off peak window and give it a go.

> If the clients don't have viable routes to the additional ethernet 
> interfaces on the server, but are still trying to use those addresses, 
> there's something else going on....
I don't think anything unseen is happening here.  I think it's a simple 
case of me not restricting the usable address space, initially.

>
>
> Ken Aaker
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Andrew Bacchi
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