On Oct 11, 2009, at 5:14 PM, C Linus Hicks <linush at verizon.net> wrote: > On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 15:13 -0400, C Linus Hicks wrote: >> There's no VIF on loopback. The machine running iet has two NICs, the >> private interconnect should not be playing a role. It's IP address is >> 10.200.2.2/24 while the local subnet is 10.200.1.0/24 and the iet >> machine is IP address 10.200.1.6. > >> From running strace on the iscsid daemon, it appears to be taking >> what > looks to me like an unexpected error. In the text below, look for the > first series of "poll" system calls. Just after that section is > where I > initiate the iscsiadm login command. Then about 100 lines later on, it > issues a connect call that returns "-1 EINPROGRESS (Operation now in > progress)". Then it goes back to polling, this time on two sockets > including the one it just tried to connect on. In a little while it > probably reaches the retry limit and closes that socket. It makes > another connect attempt that fails with the same error. There are a > total of five connect attempts, but I have cut out some of the > repeated > text. I don't know much about open-iscsi, just IET and the best way to diagnose iSCSI problems is via tcpdump and wireshark not strace. Is the iscsi-target service running? -Ross