Concurrent logins to different interfaces of the same iscsi target and login timeout

[aba...@redhat.com]

Hi,

Couple of questions regarding iscsiadm version 6.2.0.878-2:

1) Is it safe to have concurrent logins to different interfaces of the same iscsi target?

That is, having following commands run at parallel:

iscsiadm -m node -T iqn.2003-01.org.vm-18-198.iqn2 -I default -p 10.35.18.150:3260,1 -l

iscsiadm -m node -T iqn.2003-01.org.vm-18-198.iqn2 -I default -p 10.35.18.121:3260,1 -l

2) Is there a particular reason behind the default values for node.conn[0].timeo.login_timeout  and node.session.initial_login_retry_max ?

According to comment in iscsid.conf we are going to wait 120 seconds in case of an unreachable interface which is quite long.

# The default node.session.initial_login_retry_max is 8 and
# node.conn[0].timeo.login_timeout is 15 so we have:
#
# node.conn[0].timeo.login_timeout * node.session.initial_login_retry_max =
#                                                               120 seconds

Thanks,

Amit