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by chaz6 52 days ago
Do you support multi-pathing, for example, connecting using both ipv4 and ipv6?
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That's a tricky one. Sort of - we just didn't have enough reason to implement it (nor IPv6 but this is a low lift, and we can get it done quickly).

We do suport VPD 0x83 and advertise consistent NAA/WWID, so linux will support multiple iscsiadm sessions to the same device, and it will be stitched across sessions as paths to the same disk.

We currently hardcode MC/S to 1 as part of login negotiations, advertise single portal and dropping a path will require a re-login.

So - theoretically yes, you can support multipath and it won't fall on its face, but without any practical benefits of it (no bandwidth aggregation and no failover - no ALUA) - at this point it's a single boring target.

But the underlying plumbing can support it - if you have a real usecase for it.