21.11.2. Configuring an iface for Software iSCSI
As mentioned earlier, an iface
configuration is required for each network object that will be used to bind a session.
Before
To create an iface
configuration for software iSCSI, run the following command:
iscsiadm -m iface -I iface_name
--op=new
This will create a new empty iface
configuration with a specified iface_name
. If an existing iface
configuration already has the same iface_name
, then it will be overwritten with a new, empty one.
To configure a specific setting of an iface
configuration, use the following command:
iscsiadm -m iface -I iface_name
--op=update -n iface.setting
-v hw_address
For example, to set the MAC address (hardware_address
) of iface0
to 00:0F:1F:92:6B:BF
, run:
iscsiadm -m iface -I iface0 - -op=update -n iface.hwaddress -v 00:0F:1F:92:6B:BF
Do not use default
or iser
as iface
names. Both strings are special values used by iscsiadm
for backward compatibility. Any manually-created iface
configurations named default
or iser
will disable backwards compatibility.