June 2006
	Release Notes for iSER initiator part of OFED 1.0 

* Background

	iSER allows iSCSI to be layered over RDMA transports (including InfiniBand 
	and iWARP (RNIC)).

	The OpenIB iSER initiator implementation is interoperable with open-iscsi 
	(http://www.open-iscsi.org/). It provides an alternative transport to 
	iscsi_tcp in the open iscsi framework. The iSER transport exposes a 
	transport API to scsi_transport_iscsi, and a SCSI LLD API to the Linux 
	SCSI mid-layer (scsi_mod).

* supported platforms

	SLES10 (RC1 and later)

	the release has been tested against Voltaire iSCSI/iSER target running 
	in Voltaire's IB/Fibre-Channel router 

* known issues 

	SCSI command aborts may cause some instabilities
	
* iSER links

	WIKI pages

	information on building/configuring/running the open iscsi initiator w. iSER
	https://openib.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=iSER

	IETF pages

	iSCSI and iSER specifications come out of the IETF IP storage (IPS) work group 
	http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/ips-charter.html.

	"ABOUT" page

	general and detailed information on iSCSI and iSER 
	http://www.voltaire.com/iser.htm