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- .TH vblade 8
- .SH NAME
- vblade, vbladed \- export data via ATA over Ethernet
- .SH SYNOPSIS
- .nf
- .B vblade [ -m mac[,mac...] ] shelf slot netif filename
- .fi
- .SH DESCRIPTION
- The
- .I vblade
- command starts a process that uses raw sockets to perform ATA over
- Ethernet, acting like a virtual EtherDrive (R) blade.
- .PP
- The
- .I vbladed
- script can be used to daemonize the vblade process,
- detaching it from your terminal and sending its output to the system
- logs.
- .SS Arguments
- .TP
- \fBshelf\fP
- This should be the shelf address (major AoE address) of the AoE device
- to create.
- .TP
- \fBslot\fP
- This should be the slot address (minor AoE address) of the AoE device
- to create.
- .TP
- \fBnetif\fP
- The name of the ethernet network interface to use for AoE
- communications.
- .TP
- \fBfilename\fP
- The name of the regular file or block device to export.
- .SS Options
- .TP
- \fB-m\fP
- The -m flag takes an argument, a comma separated list of MAC addresses
- permitted access to the vblade. A MAC address can be specified in upper
- or lower case, with or without colons.
- .SH EXAMPLE
- In this example, the root user on a host named
- .I nai
- exports a file named "3TB" to the LAN on eth0 using AoE shelf address 11
- and slot address 1. The process runs in the foreground. Using
- .I vbladed
- would have resulted in the process running as a daemon in the
- background.
- .IP
- .EX
- .nf
- nai:~# vblade 11 1 eth0 /data/3TB
- .fi
- .EE
- .SH BUGS
- Users of Jumbo frames should read the README file distributed with
- vblade to learn about a workaround for kernel buffering limitations.
- .SH AUTHOR
- Brantley Coile (brantley@coraid.com)
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