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  1. The aoetools are programs that assist in using ATA over Ethernet on
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  2. systems with version 2.6 Linux kernels.  
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  4. Systems running 2.4 Linux kernels do not need and should not install
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  5. the aoetools.  The aoe driver for 2.4 kernels is self sufficient.
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  8. AOE DRIVER COMPATIBILITY
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  10.   ATA over Ethernet (AoE) devices have a shelf address and a slot
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  11.   address. The aoe driver used to support only 10 slots per shelf
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  12.   address. The 2.6.14 kernel contains an aoe driver that supports up
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  13.   to 16 slots per shelf address. This change means that ...
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  15.      1. It's easy to use the aoetools that come bundled with the aoe
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  16.         driver at the Coraid website.
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  18.      2. It's easy to use aoetools-8 or later with kernels 2.6.14 or
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  19.         later.
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  21.      3. It's easy to use other combinations as long as you read the
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  22.         information in the devnodes.txt file here.
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  26. If you need to configure the software, look at the variables at the
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  27. top of the Makefile.  The defaults should work for most people.  When
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  28. using the defaults there's only one step to configure and install the
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  29. aoetools software and documentation:
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  31.   make install
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  33. You'll need sufficient permissions to install in the default locations
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  34. if you haven't overridden them with your own locations.
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  36. Here is a brief list of the tools.  Please see the man pages for
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  37. further details.
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  39.   aoe-discover		trigger discovery of ATA over Ethernet devices
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  40.   aoe-interfaces	restrict network interfaces used for AoE
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  41.   aoe-mkdevs		create character and block device files
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  42.   aoe-mkshelf		create block device files for one shelf address
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  43.   aoe-revalidate	ask the aoe driver to update its state for a device
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  44.   aoe-stat		print status information for AoE devices
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  45.   aoeping		simple userland communication with AoE devices
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  47. The aoetools homepage
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  48.   http://aoetools.sourceforge.net/
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  50. The Coraid homepage
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  51.   http://www.coraid.com/
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  52.   http://www.coraid.com/support/linux/
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