Christopher J. Umina

Well worth mentioning:
There’s a way more updated version of the iSCSI Initiator on the developer’s public FTP site.
ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/users/danny/freebsd/
With this version I’m now seeing acceptable IO (around 65MB/s reads/writes) after setting tags=256 in iscsi.conf.
All credits to the developer.
Because I’m in the US, I have fairly bad connectivity to that site. I’ve mirrored it here:
http://uminac.com/mirror/ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/users/danny/freebsd/

After plenty of hours of trying to figure out why it was that Sun’s native LDAP client wouldn’t talk to my OpenLDAP server I decided to call support. I had been through just about every Google result I could read and still got nowhere.
It turns out that when you use the native client you’re [...]

Please see the update to this post
As A Target (Server)
The only available iSCSI target software in FreeBSD is the /net/iscsi-target port. This is the iSCSI target from OpenBSD and is absolutely not suitable for production use (or even most non-production uses).
Problems I’ve come across:

Does not support CHAP.
Will not allow multiple connections to the same [...]

Got a new storage server, it’s a PE2900 from Dell. Installed FreeBSD 7.2 on it, rebuilt the kernel with all the updates and included:
options iscsi_initiator
connected to the iSCSI target across the LAN, then I used:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/testiscsi/file.out bs=65536
to test the speeds after mounting it. I observed horrific speeds (in the range of 300-500KB/s).
To [...]

In a recent battle at work I put a Cisco 2960G up against a Dell PowerConnect 5424. The PowerConnects aren’t bad… They’re cheap, gigabit, and Layer-2. Anyway, I quickly found out that unless you use GVRP, the Dell cannot learn what VLANs are out there. You have to specify allowed VLANS [...]