RHBA-2008:0424 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An updated iscsi-initiator package that fixes a bug and adds various
enhancements is now available.

Description

The iscsi-initiator-utils package provides the server daemon for the iSCSI
protocol, as well as the utility programs used to manage it. iSCSI is a
protocol for distributed disk access using SCSI commands sent over Internet
Protocol networks.

This updated iscsi-initiator package provides fixes for the following bugs:

• when iscsistart was run during boot, it sometimes failed with error

number 101, even though the network was already set up.

In addition, this updated package provides the following enhancements:

• support for using iSNS in order to discover iSCSI targets.
• iSCSI boot using iBFT information is now supported by iscsiadm and

iscsistart.

• support for IPsec and IPv6 have been added.

Users are advised to upgrade to this updated iscsi-initiator package, which
resolves this issue and adds these enhancements.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released
errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use
the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_58_10188

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5 ppc
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 433504 - iscsi-initiator-utils does not handle ::ip_address
• BZ - 437195 - ibft boot: pick up chap values dynamically
• BZ - 438092 - Export network settings from ibft

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)