RFC 3721 iSCSI Naming and Discovery April 2004 Table of Contents 1. iSCSI Names and Addresses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1.1. Constructing iSCSI names using the iqn. format . . . . . 5 1.2. Constructing iSCSI names using the eui. format . . . . . 8 2. iSCSI Alias. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 2.1. Purpose of an Alias. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 2.2. Target Alias . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 2.3. Initiator Alias. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 3. iSCSI Discovery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 4. Security Considerations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 5. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 5.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 5.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 6. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Appendix A: iSCSI Naming Notes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Appendix B: Interaction with Proxies and Firewalls. . . . . . . . 16 B.1. Port Redirector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 B.2. SOCKS server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 B.3. SCSI gateway. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 B.4. iSCSI Proxy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 B.5. Stateful Inspection Firewall. . . . . . . . . . 18 Appendix C: iSCSI Names and Security Identifiers. . . . . . . . . 19 Authors' Addresses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Full Copyright Statement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Bakke, et al. Informational