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RN316 - FW 6.6.1 - iSCSI CHAP Broken / Confusion
Hi All, Ever since updating to 6.6.1, we've noticed that all our iSCSI drives, which use CHAP Authentication, keep dropping off / disconnecting. On further investigation it seems that everyti...
Is this why I've been fighting iSCSI issues connecting to a single target/LUN from two separate initiators for the last 4 hours??? because, unless something has changed... CHAP and authentication are required to connect from multiple hosts...
First host works; the second gives me an authentication error and/or "service unavailable"
Yup, they screwed it up hard... sent my whole environment AWOL
Only way I have it stable now is to disable all CHAP authentication from all ISCSI Drives, and have them wide open to allow Any connection to the share.
I always said I'll never buy a Netgear again and I did... Looks like I should have stuck with my gut....
ARGH!!! F!@#$%^&
Seriously worked on this most of the afternoon. I'm literally sitting at a bar on my 4th beer STILL working on this... I thought I was doing something wrong (this is the first time I've tried to connect to a single LUN on a 6.x ReadyNAS with multiple hosts... always works great in 4.2.x).
As mucha as I agree this is super annoying, I'm also anxious to get this working because on a single host (dual 10Gb NICs, dual switches, with MPIO and jumbo frames) I'm getting over double the read/write speed as I am on my PS6010E !!! (1005 MBps reads and 2337 MBps writes...and yes, that is MB not Mb)
.....but crap like this makes me wonder if performance is worth the risk of stability/functionality.... probalby not, eh?
Netgear might actually have a chance at pushing into the enterprise market if they could fix their lousy coding and juveline issues... but this just reminds me (again) that they will never be anything more than a SOHO/cheap product.
(and, I love ReadyNAS... been using it for ages...actually, it's the only Netgear product we sell...lol).
Is there any point in upgrading to the 6.7 beta or is that asking for more trouble???
Any possibilities of downgrading?? (does anyone have the working firmware somewhere??) It's a "new" box for me so I dont care if I have to default or reset.
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