The aoetools are programs that assist in using ATA over Ethernet on
systems with version 2.6 Linux kernels.  

Systems running 2.4 Linux kernels do not need and should not install
the aoetools.  The aoe driver for 2.4 kernels is self sufficient.

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AOE DRIVER COMPATIBILITY

  ATA over Ethernet (AoE) devices have a shelf address and a slot
  address. The aoe driver used to support only 10 slots per shelf
  address. The 2.6.14 kernel contains an aoe driver that supports up
  to 16 slots per shelf address. This change means that ...
  
     1. It's easy to use the aoetools that come bundled with the aoe
        driver at the Coraid website.
  
     2. It's easy to use aoetools-8 or later with kernels 2.6.14 or
        later.
  
     3. It's easy to use other combinations as long as you read the
        information in the devnodes.txt file here.
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If you need to configure the software, look at the variables at the
top of the Makefile.  The defaults should work for most people.  When
using the defaults there's only one step to configure and install the
aoetools software and documentation:

  make install

You'll need sufficient permissions to install in the default locations
if you haven't overridden them with your own locations.

Here is a brief list of the tools.  Please see the man pages for
further details.

  aoe-discover		trigger discovery of ATA over Ethernet devices
  aoe-interfaces	restrict network interfaces used for AoE
  aoe-mkdevs		create character and block device files
  aoe-mkshelf		create block device files for one shelf address
  aoe-revalidate	ask the aoe driver to update its state for a device
  aoe-stat		print status information for AoE devices
  aoeping		simple userland communication with AoE devices

The aoetools homepage
  http://aoetools.sourceforge.net/

The Coraid homepage
  http://www.coraid.com/
  http://www.coraid.com/support/linux/