NAME
iscsid —
interface to kernel iSCSI
driver
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
The iSCSI initiator runs as a kernel driver, and provides access to iSCSI
targets running across a network using the iSCSI protocol, RFC 3720. The
iscsid utility itself interfaces to the kernel iSCSI driver,
and also communicates, using
isns(3), with the iSCSI name
service running on other hosts to locate services and iSCSI instances. In
normal operation,
iscsid is a standard daemon, and will
detach from the controlling terminal using
daemon(3) and then loops,
reading requests, processing them, and sending responses. Communication takes
place over a Unix domain socket.
iscsid exits on receiving a
terminate message, (no response to one that is sent to the kernel), or when an
error occurs reading from or writing to the socket.
The
-d flag increases the log level to
lvl. At level 0 only start and stop messages are logged.
The
-D flag causes
iscsid to remain in the
foreground and to write log output to stdout.
It is envisaged that user-level communication take place with
iscsid using the
iscsictl(8) utility, rather
than directly over its communication socket. An example of setting up the
in-kernel iSCSI initiator is shown in
iscsictl(8).
iscsid requires
scsibus(4) and
sd(4) compiled in the kernel to load
the iscsi kernel module.
SEE ALSO
daemon(3),
isns(3),
iscsictl(8)
HISTORY
The
iscsid utility appeared in
NetBSD
6.0.
AUTHORS
Alistair Crooks
<
agc@NetBSD.org> wrote
this manual page. The
iscsid utility was contributed by
Wasabi Systems, Inc.