iscsiuio



iscsiuio

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
DRIVER DEPENDENCIES
PARAMETERS
AUTHOR

NAME

iscsiuio − iSCSI UserSpace I/O driver

SYNOPSIS

iscsiuio [-d-f-v]

DESCRIPTION

iscsiuio is the UserSpace I/O driver for the Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5706/5708/5709 series PCI/PCI-X Gigabit Ethernet Network Interface Card (NIC) and for the Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM57710/57711/57712/57800/57810/57840 series PCI-E 10 Gigabit Ethernet Network Interface Card. The driver has been tested on 2.6.28 kernels and above.

Refer to the README.TXT from the driver package on how to compile and install the driver.

Refer to various Linux documentations on how to configure network protocol and address.

DRIVER DEPENDENCIES

PARAMETERS

There are very few parameters when running this application.
-d
<debuglevel>

This is to enable debug mode where debug messages will be sent to stdout The following debug modes are supported

DEBUG 4 - Print all messages

INFO 3 - Print messages needed to follow the uIP code (default)

WARN 2 - Print warning messages

ERROR 1 - Only print critical errors

-f

This is to enable forground mode so that this application doesn’t get sent into the background.

-v

This is to print the version.

-p<pidfile>

Use pidfile (default /var/run/iscsiuio.pid )

-h

Display this help and exit.

AUTHOR

Benjamin Li − benli@broadcom.com

Eddie Wai − eddie.wai@broadcom.com







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