Dell Intel PRO Family of Adapters - Manual (Page 33)

Invalid CHAP Settings May Cause Windows Server 2008 to Blue Screen
If an iSCSI Boot port CHAP user name and secret do not match the target CHAP user name and secret, Windows Server 2008
may blue screen or reboot during installation or boot. Ensure that all CHAP settings match those set on the target(s).
Windows Server 2008 Installation When Performing a WDS Installation
If you perform a WDS installation and attempt to manually update drivers during the installation, the drivers load but the iSCSI
Target LUN does not display in the installation location list. This is a known WDS limitation with no current fix. Therefore, the
installation must be done from a DVD or USB media. Refer to the Microsoft Knowledge Base
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960924 .
Intel® iSCSI Boot Crash Dump Support for Intel 82598EB 10 Gigabit Network
Connections not Supported on Windows Server 2008
Crash dump is not currently supported for these connections on Windows Server 2008.
Setting Locally Administered Address (LAA) on an iSCSI Boot-Enabled Port Will Cause
System Failure on Next Reboot
Do not set LAA on ports with iSCSI Boot enabled.
Automatic creation of iSCSI traffic filters for DCB, using Virtual Adapters created by
Hyper-V, is only supported on Microsoft* Windows Server* 2008 releases R2 and
later
The iSCSI for Data Center Bridging (DCB) feature uses Quality of Service (QOS) traffic filters to tag outgoing packets with a
priority. The Intel iSCSI Agent dynamically creates these traffic filters as needed for Windows Server 2008 R2 and later.
iSCSI over DCB using Microsoft* Windows Server* 2012
iSCSI over DCB (priority tagging) is not possible on the port on which VMSwitch is created. This is by design in Microsoft*
Windows Server* 2012.
Linux Known Issues
Intermittent Failure to Remote Boot with X540 Adapter on SLES 11 SP3
Remote boot with SuSE11 SP3 and a x540 adapter can intermittently fail to complete. This is due to a timing issue involving
DCB in some hardware configurations.
A fix for this issue can be found at SuSE FCoE Bootable Driver Kit .
Channel Bonding
Linux Channel Bonding has basic compatibility issues with iSCSI Boot and should not be used.
LRO and iSCSI Incompatibility
Large Receive Offload (LRO) is incompatible with iSCSI target or initiator traffic. A panic may occur when iSCSI traffic is
received through the ixgbe driver with LRO enabled. To work around this, the driver should be built and installed with:
# make CFLAGS_EXTRA=-DIXGBE_NO_LRO install