OpenBSD iscsi-target

November 12, 2008 in Blog

A while back, I had a random interest to see if FreeBSD could be used as an iSCSI target.  Since FreeNAS could do it, I figured the ability would be built into FreeBSD, but I was wrong.  After a bit of Googling, I found that somebody ported the OpenBSD version of iscsi-target over to FreeBSD.

I decided to play with it a bit, and found that it functioned.  It’s got a few problems though (can’t rehash config files to add/remove lun’s without killing all open connections, and restarting).

My ability to code in c is very weak, but I guess maybe I’ll try to investigate how it works, and see if I can’t at least come up with a patch for that specific thing.  The other problems with the code are way above my head, having to do with authentication, and encryption.

Who knows…

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