ISCSI and trunking

Hi,
I am setting up a test environment for evaluating iSCSI and we would like to know if Sun Trunking 1.3 and iSCSI under Solaris 10 is supported, we would also like to implement jumbo frames as well.
Has anyone tried this kind of configuration?
Thank you in advance for any information!
Chris

I think you should be using dladm rather than Sun
Trunking with Solaris 10.
Also, you don't say, but if you're planning to use
Solaris iSCSI targets, then they don't exist in
Solaris 10 yet, you need OpenSolaris for target
support at the moment.Thanks for your reply.
The iSCSI target was a NetApp appliance. We actually
did find that Sun Trunking 1.3 works fine with
Solaris 10 as well as jumbo frames.
We used Sun's quad (ce) gigabit Ethernet adapter and
trunked two ports on the host end.
Thanks again.
I'll have to look into dladmMain. update 2 of Solaris 10 has native iSCSI initiator.
Works great on 3PAR's storage array.
M

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