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[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] iSCSI implementationMike: A group at the InterOperability Lab at the University of New Hampshire under Prof. Robert D. Russell has been looking at the performance and implementation aspects of iSCSI as compared to Fibre Channel and other SAN technologies. We have developed among other things an iSCSI Initiator (again to draft-3 specs) - this interfaces to the SCSI Mid-Level in the Linux kernel. For the Target side, we have developed a generic SCSI Target Mid-Level, along with a bunch of front-ends (for Fibre Channel, Adaptec's SEP and iSCSI). Actually we have been looking for a good open source initiator implementation for iSCSI. The SEP implementation (both initiator and target) is decently stable, the iSCSI/Fibre Channel implementations are being worked on. I am in the process of putting them up on the web. All code is being released under the GPL license v2. Code is experimental, buggy and not everything has been implemented. Code has been tested on Intel machines only at this point. We are planning to upgrade the code directly to v06 of the draft when it comes out. We did not upgrade to version 05 because of frame format issues (WN). The link for the code is: http://www.iol.unh.edu/consortiums/fc/fc_linux.html I have put up a copy of my thesis. It contains an overly detailed documentation of the Target side code. However, it was the shortest path to getting the information out there. I do not subscribe to the iSCSI mailing list, so please respond directly to me if you have any questions/thoughts/ideas on how to go ahead with development work Thanks -- Ashish A. Palekar ----------------- Fibre Channel Consortium InterOperability Lab Rm 201, Jere A. Chase Ocean Engg. Bldg 24 Colovis Road Durham, NH 03824-3525 Tel. No.: (603) 862 0701
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