I'm truly sorry, i got it working, it was an issue with iscsid not getting started On Feb 16, 2008 5:02 PM, Maysara A. Abdulhaq <maysara.abdulhaq at gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm fairly new to centos and to iscsi, I have installed a fresh copy > of centos (CentOS release 5 (Final)) and installed > iscsi-initator-utils, iscsiadm -V shows iscsiadm version 2.0-865 . > > when i try to connect to iscsi target it doesnt work ... it just stays > idle , i try something like: > > iscsiadm -m discovery -t st -p 172.20.2.76 show > > or with -m node .... --login ...etc, none works. > > using the same configuration on ubuntu gutsy, same version things work! > > i also made both /etc/iscsi/iscsid.conf identical ... no luck :( > > i did tcpdump too (-vv -n ) and then grep the ip of the iscsi target, > i see no traffic to the iscsi target at all on the centos machine, i > tried it on the other machine it works :S > > Is there anything else to check? firewalls are all shutdown on all > nodes ... i tried switching ips too .. > > any hint is greatly valued, thank you > > -- > Maysara A. A. > -- Maysara A. A.