1vblade(8)                   System Manager's Manual                  vblade(8)
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NAME

6       vblade, vbladed - export data via ATA over Ethernet
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SYNOPSIS

9       vblade [ -m mac[,mac...] ] shelf slot netif filename
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DESCRIPTION

12       The  vblade  command  starts a process that uses raw sockets to perform
13       ATA over Ethernet, acting like a virtual EtherDrive (R) blade.
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15       The vbladed script can be used to daemonize the vblade process, detach‐
16       ing it from your terminal and sending its output to the system logs.
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18   Arguments
19       shelf  This  should be the shelf address (major AoE address) of the AoE
20              device to create.
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22       slot   This should be the slot address (minor AoE address) of  the  AoE
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25       netif  The name of the ethernet network interface to use for AoE commu‐
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28       filename
29              The name of the regular file or block device to export.
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31   Options
32       -m     The -m flag takes an argument, a comma  separated  list  of  MAC
33              addresses  permitted access to the vblade.  A MAC address can be
34              specified in upper or lower case, with or without colons.
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EXAMPLE

37       In this example, the root user on a host named nai exports a file named
38       "3TB" to the LAN on eth0 using AoE shelf address 11 and slot address 1.
39       The process runs in the foreground.  Using vbladed would have  resulted
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42              nai:~# vblade 11 1 eth0 /data/3TB
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BUGS

45       Users  of  Jumbo  frames  should  read the README file distributed with
46       vblade to learn about a workaround for kernel buffering limitations.
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AUTHOR

49       Brantley Coile (brantley@coraid.com)
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