So you setup multipath with iSCSI on Red Hat 5 but noticing traffic is only going out 1 interface?
The problem is iscsiadm seems to ignore the physical interface you are trying to bond to. I think you can manually force the iface when setting up each node but when you have a storage array with 5 adapters, and your server has 3 adapters you are using, do you really want to enter 15 commands per volume? If you are as lazy as I am, the quick fix is to edit each iface entry in /var/lib/iscsi/ifaces and add the line:
"iface.net_ifacename = eth0" where eth0 is the physical interface you are bonding.
Then its simple a matter of discovering the volumes:
iscsiadm -m discovery -t st -p <iscsi discovery IP>
Add the node to all available ifaces in 1 shot:
iscsiadm -m node iqn.veryveryverylongname000000666.feedge --login
Check multipath:
multipath -ll
mpath10 (2bfc5148f7267432c5d7ce900ed0e9ff4) dm-2 Nimble,Server
[size=800G][features=0][hwhandler=0][rw]
\_ round-robin 0 [prio=15][active]
\_ 147:0:0:0 sdef 128:112 [active][ready]
\_ 149:0:0:0 sdeg 128:128 [active][ready]
\_ 148:0:0:0 sdeh 128:144 [active][ready]
\_ 151:0:0:0 sdei 128:160 [active][ready]
\_ 153:0:0:0 sdel 128:208 [active][ready]
\_ 150:0:0:0 sdej 128:176 [active][ready]
\_ 152:0:0:0 sdek 128:192 [active][ready]
\_ 154:0:0:0 sdem 128:224 [active][ready]
\_ 156:0:0:0 sden 128:240 [active][ready]
\_ 158:0:0:0 sdeq 129:32 [active][ready]
\_ 155:0:0:0 sdeo 129:0 [active][ready]
\_ 157:0:0:0 sdep 129:16 [active][ready]
\_ 159:0:0:0 sder 129:48 [active][ready]
\_ 160:0:0:0 sdes 129:64 [active][ready]
\_ 161:0:0:0 sdet 129:80 [active][ready]
and mount (or format) your volume:
mount /dev/mpath/mpath10 /myvolume
You can check ifconfig to confirm all the ethernet adapters bound to iSCSI have equal amounts of traffic or use iptraf to check the packets.
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