Users Guide
Table Of Contents
- Revision History
- Table of Contents
- Regulatory and Safety Approvals
- Functional Description
- Network Link and Activity Indication
- Features
- Software and Hardware Features
- Virtualization Features
- VXLAN
- NVGRE/GRE/IP-in-IP/Geneve
- Stateless Offloads
- UDP Fragmentation Offload
- Stateless Transport Tunnel Offload
- Multiqueue Support for OS
- SR-IOV Configuration Support Matrix
- SR-IOV
- Network Partitioning (NPAR)
- RDMA over Converged Ethernet – RoCE
- Supported Combinations
- Installing the Hardware
- Software Packages and Installation
- Windows Driver Advanced Properties and Event Log Messages
- Teaming
- System-level Configuration
- ISCSI Boot
- VXLAN: Configuration and Use Case Examples
- SR-IOV: Configuration and Use Case Examples
- NPAR – Configuration and Use Case Example
- RoCE – Configuration and Use Case Examples
- DCBX – Data Center Bridging
ISCSI BootNetXtreme-E User’s Manual
September 4, 2019 • NetXtreme-E-UG103 Page 58
• If DHCP Option 17 is used, the target information is provided by the DHCP server, and the initiator iSCSI
name is retrieved from the value programmed from the Initiator Parameters screen. If no value was
selected, then the controller defaults to the name:
iqn.1995-05.com.broadcom.<11.22.33.44.55.66>.iscsiboot
where the string 11.22.33.44.55.66 corresponds to the controller's MAC address.
• If DHCP option 43 (IPv4 only) is used, then any settings on the Initiator Parameters, 1st Target Parameters,
or 2nd Target Parameters screens are ignored and do not need to be cleared.
To configure the iSCSI boot parameters using a dynamic configuration:
1.
From the General Parameters menu screen, set the following parameters:
• TCP/IP parameters via DHCP – Enabled. (For IPv4.)
• IP Autoconfiguration – Enabled. (For IPv6, non-offload.)
• iSCSI parameters via DHCP – Enabled
• CHAP Authentication – Disabled
• DHCP Vendor ID – BRCM ISAN
• Link Up Delay Time – 0
• Use TCP Timestamp – Enabled (for some targets such as the Dell/EMC AX100i, it is necessary to
enable Use TCP Timestamp)
• Target as First HDD – Disabled
• LUN Busy Retry Count – 0
• IP Version – IPv6. (For IPv6, non-offload.)
2. Select ESC to return to the Main menu.
3.
Select Exit and Save Configurations.
Enabling CHAP Authentication
Ensure that CHAP authentication is enabled on the target.
To enable CHAP authentication:
1. From the General Parameters screen, set CHAP Authentication to Enabled.
2. From the Initiator Parameters screen, enter the parameters for the following:
• CHAP ID (up to 128 bytes)
• CHAP Secret (if authentication is required, and must be 12 characters in length or longer)
3. Select ESC to return to the Main menu.
4. From the Main menu, select the 1st Target Parameters.
Note: Information on the Initiator Parameters, and 1st Target Parameters screens are ignored and do
not need to be cleared.