[stgt] [RFC 1/1] iscsi_tcp: Support the keyword "ANY" for the iscsi_portal_addr string.

FUJITA Tomonori fujita.tomonori at lab.ntt.co.jp
Thu May 6 05:00:45 CEST 2010


Sorry for the late response, I had been offline for some time.

On Sun, 02 May 2010 18:04:01 +0300
Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh at panasas.com> wrote:

> Let the "ANY" keyword designate an INADDR_ANY/IN6ADDR_ANY_INIT when
> specifying the --iscsi portal=XXX command option to the iscsi_tcp protocol
> driver. (.i.e pass NULL as the first parameter to getaddrinfo());
> 
> This makes it easy to change just the port service number but
> keep tgtd bind on all interfaces. It is useful when the ISCSI
> default port is used by another demon and we want tgtd to export
> an alternative iscsi-target.
> 
> example usage:
> 	tgtd --iscsi portal=ANY:3251

Adding the feature to specify only the port is fine by me. But I
wonder why we can't simply do something like:

tgtd --iscsi portal=:3251

?
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