MaxConnections question

[Gabriel K. McAtee]

Team,
    The man (5) page on ietd.conf states:

[MaxConnections <value>]
    Optional.  Has to be set to "1" (in words: one). which is also the
default.


In my ietd.conf, I have no MaxConnections line, but I have half a dozen
ESX hosts connected to it.  I also want to create a couple of targets
that are essentially temp space for data migrations, and I want to NOT
limit which machines have access in initiators.{allow, deny}, but DO
limit the # of connections  to the given target to a single initiator,
as the volumes will be NTFS & will be accessed primarily by Windows
servers and workstations.

Apparently the default of MaxConnections 1 is not enforced; if I put it
in and specify MaxConnections 1 will it it fact work?

Thanks,
     Gabriel

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[Arne Redlich-2]

Am Mittwoch, den 27.08.2008, 16:56 -0500 schrieb Gabriel K. McAtee:

> Team,
>     The man (5) page on ietd.conf states:
>
> [MaxConnections <value>]
>     Optional.  Has to be set to "1" (in words: one). which is also the
> default.
>
>
> In my ietd.conf, I have no MaxConnections line, but I have half a dozen
> ESX hosts connected to it.  I also want to create a couple of targets
> that are essentially temp space for data migrations, and I want to NOT
> limit which machines have access in initiators.{allow, deny}, but DO
> limit the # of connections  to the given target to a single initiator,
> as the volumes will be NTFS & will be accessed primarily by Windows
> servers and workstations.
>
> Apparently the default of MaxConnections 1 is not enforced; if I put it
> in and specify MaxConnections 1 will it it fact work?

MaxConnections specifies the # of connections that can be part of a
session, i.e. MC/S (multiple conns per session). Since we don't support
MC/S its always one. See the RFC for details.

What you have in mind is to limit the number of sessions, which is not
supported.
 
HTH,
Arne


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[Gabriel K. McAtee]

Arne Redlich wrote:

Am Mittwoch, den 27.08.2008, 16:56 -0500 schrieb Gabriel K. McAtee:
  

Team,
    The man (5) page on ietd.conf states:

[MaxConnections <value>]
    Optional.  Has to be set to "1" (in words: one). which is also the 
default.


In my ietd.conf, I have no MaxConnections line, but I have half a dozen 
ESX hosts connected to it.  I also want to create a couple of targets 
that are essentially temp space for data migrations, and I want to NOT 
limit which machines have access in initiators.{allow, deny}, but DO 
limit the # of connections  to the given target to a single initiator, 
as the volumes will be NTFS & will be accessed primarily by Windows 
servers and workstations.

Apparently the default of MaxConnections 1 is not enforced; if I put it 
in and specify MaxConnections 1 will it it fact work?
    

MaxConnections specifies the # of connections that can be part of a
session, i.e. MC/S (multiple conns per session). Since we don't support
MC/S its always one. See the RFC for details.

What you have in mind is to limit the number of sessions, which is not
supported.
 
HTH,
Arne


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OK, thanks!

--Gabriel

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