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