1.\" $NetBSD: iscsid.8,v 1.1 2011/10/23 21:11:23 agc Exp $ 2.\" 3.\" Copyright (c) 2011 Alistair Crooks <agc@NetBSD.org> 4.\" All rights reserved. 5.\" 6.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 7.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 8.\" are met: 9.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 11.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 12.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 13.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 14.\" 15.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR 16.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES 17.\" OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. 18.\" IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, 19.\" INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT 20.\" NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, 21.\" DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY 22.\" THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT 23.\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF 24.\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. 25.\" 26.Dd August 8, 2011 27.Dt ISCSICTL 8 28.Os 29.Sh NAME 30.Nm iscsid 31.Nd interface to kernel iSCSI driver 32.Sh SYNOPSIS 33.Nm 34.Sh DESCRIPTION 35The iSCSI initiator runs as a kernel driver, and provides access 36to iSCSI targets running across a network using the iSCSI protocol, 37RFC 3270. 38The 39.Nm 40utility itself interfaces to the kernel iSCSI driver, and also 41communicates, using 42.Xr libisns 3 , 43with the iSCSI name service running on other hosts 44to locate services and iSCSI instances. 45In normal operation, 46.Nm 47is a standard daemon, and will detach from the controlling 48terminal using 49.Xr daemon 3 50and then loops, reading requests, processing them, 51and sending responses. 52Communication takes place over a 53Unix domain socket. 54.Nm 55exits on receiving a terminate message, 56(no response to one that is sent to the kernel), 57or when an error occurs reading from or writing to the socket. 58.Pp 59There are no command line arguments to 60.Nm . 61.Pp 62It is envisaged that user-level communication take place with 63.Nm 64using the 65.Xr iscsictl 8 66utility, rather than directly over its communication socket. 67An example of setting up the in-kernel iSCSI initiator 68is shown in 69.Xr iscsictl 8 . 70.Sh SEE ALSO 71.Xr daemon 3 , 72.Xr libisns 3 , 73.Xr iscsictl 8 74.Sh HISTORY 75The 76.Nm 77utility appeared in 78.Nx 6.0 . 79.Sh AUTHORS 80.An Alistair Crooks Aq agc@NetBSD.org 81wrote this manual page. 82The 83.Nm 84utility was contributed by Wasabi Systems, Inc. 85