Using ATA Over Ethernet (AoE) On Debian Lenny (Initiator And Target)

Written By
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Falko Timme
Mar 15, 2009

[ Thanks to Falko
Timme
for this link. ]

“2 Loading The aoe Kernel Module On Both Systems

server1/server2:

Before we start, we must make sure that the the kernel supports
AoE:

grep ATA_OVER /boot/config-`uname -r`

This should display something like this:

server2:~# grep ATA_OVER /boot/config-`uname -r`
CONFIG_ATA_OVER_ETH=m
server2:~#

This means that AoE was built as a kernel module. Let’s check if
the module is already loaded:

lsmod | grep aoe

If you get nothing back, this means it’s not loaded. In this
case we can load it as follows:

modprobe aoe”


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