Bug 156184

Summary:	Few multi value parameters in iscsi.conf file do not support multiple values
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3	Reporter:	Nitin Chandna <cnitin>
Component:	iscsi-initiator-utils	Assignee:	AJ Lewis <157070.alewis>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	3.0	CC:	coughlan, jlaska, rkenna
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Hardware:	i686
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Fixed In Version:	RHBA-2005-548	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Description Nitin Chandna 2005-04-28 09:39:28 UTC

Description of problem:
/etc/iscsi.conf file and man pages mention the following support multiple 
values with comma as separator:
- Subnet/Address
- SLPMulticast
- HostIPsForMP
The first two do not support multiple values and the third one "HostIPsForMP" 
has been misspelt as "HostIPForMP" in /etc/iscsi.conf file.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.4.20-8

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Configure the above mentioned parameters with multiple values separated by 
comma.
2. When driver is restarted, /var/log/messages shows error on those specific 
lines, where multiple values are used with comma separator.

  
Actual results:
Multiple values for the above mentioned parameters do not function. They have 
to be specified on separate lines to make it work.

Expected results:
Either change the documentation for these parameters to be functioning on 
separate lines or change the implementation to make them work fine as multiple 
values.

Additional info:
None

Comment 3 AJ Lewis 2005-06-14 19:33:11 UTC

I'm not seeing anywhere that Subnet/Address is said to support multiple values

Comment 4 AJ Lewis 2005-06-14 19:39:45 UTC

Ok, so i put multiple values into the SLPMulticast line, and i got no errors. 
What version are you using?  Are you using the RPM?

Comment 5 Nitin Chandna 2005-06-15 07:20:35 UTC

1. Version of iSCSI Initiator: 3.6.2 downloaded from www.sf.net iscsi initiator
page. This was a .gz file dowaloaded from the sf.net
2. This was not available as rpm.
3. This was tested on a 2.4 kernel: kernel-2.4.20-8 (This was installed from a CD)
4. The man page of /etc/iscsi.conf, specifies usage of multiple values for the
mentioned attributes. 
5. SLPMulticast worked with value "all", but not with comma separated value.
/var/log/messages showed error at the line specified, since it was not able to
parse the multiple values with comma separators.

Comment 6 AJ Lewis 2005-06-15 13:33:57 UTC

Well, I'm running RHEL3-U5 w/the iscsi-initiator-utils-3.6.2-7 package - i add
"SLPMulticast=192.168.22.112,10.15.80.2" to my /etc/iscsi.conf and start iscsi.
 /var/log/messages has this:

Jun 15 08:32:09 bench-05 kernel: iSCSI: 3.6.1 (22-Sep-2004) built for Linux
2.4.21-32.0.1.ELsmp
Jun 15 08:32:09 bench-05 kernel: iSCSI: will translate deferred sense to current
sense on disk command responses
Jun 15 08:32:09 bench-05 kernel: iSCSI: control device major number 254
Jun 15 08:32:09 bench-05 kernel: iSCSI: allocating task cache iscsi_0007304628
with reaping disabled
Jun 15 08:32:09 bench-05 kernel: iSCSI: detected HBA ddc16b00, host #0
Jun 15 08:32:09 bench-05 kernel: scsi0 : iSCSI 3.6.1 (22-Sep-2004)
Jun 15 08:32:09 bench-05 iscsid[9845]: version 3.6.2 (27-Sep-2004)
Jun 15 08:32:09 bench-05 iscsid[9845]: INBP boot check returned
this_is_inbp_boot = 0
Jun 15 08:32:09 bench-05 iscsid[9848]: Connected to Discovery Address 10.15.84.19
Jun 15 08:32:29 bench-05 iscsi:  succeeded

There is no mention of an error in the config file.  Please update to the latest
RHEL3 codebase and try again (and use the iscsi-initiator-utils rpm)

Comment 7 Nitin Chandna 2005-06-16 12:02:21 UTC

I just re-tried, and saw there were no errors when I specified comma-separated
multiple values for SLPMulticast, but the devices were not shown after executing
iscsi-ls -l. Whereas when SLPMulticast was given a value "all", the devices were
visible on the host with iscsi-ls -l.

From where can I download RHEL3-U5 and iscsi-initiator-utils-3.6.2-7 package? I
will try to test this defect against this combination.

Comment 8 Tom Coughlan 2005-06-16 12:50:34 UTC

> From where can I download RHEL3-U5 ...

It is on RHN. You should have an entitlement. If not please contact Rob Kenna
(rkenna).

Comment 10 AJ Lewis 2005-06-21 18:19:12 UTC

I'm seeing the same thing as comment #7 with the current RPM - I'll pull the
SLPMulticast comma separated options out of the configs and man pages.

Comment 15 AJ Lewis 2005-06-23 16:08:48 UTC

Fixes to documentation have been committed upstream - will be picked up in next
RPM build.

Comment 18 Red Hat Bugzilla 2005-09-28 19:35:21 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2005-548.html