• Some users have recently had their accounts hijacked. It seems that the now defunct EVGA forums might have compromised your password there and seems many are using the same PW here. We would suggest you UPDATE YOUR PASSWORD and TURN ON 2FA for your account here to further secure it. None of the compromised accounts had 2FA turned on.
    Once you have enabled 2FA, your account will be updated soon to show a badge, letting other members know that you use 2FA to protect your account. This should be beneficial for everyone that uses FSFT.

iSCSI on FreeBSD + Devolo LAN

B

BSDMan

Weaksauce
Joined
May 23, 2012
Messages
105
Hi All

This is my first post :)

I am thinking about replacing my current FreeBSD 8.2 server with something shiny and new later in the year. I have many questions! :confused:

Currently I have a laptop, a media center machine and a FreeBSD server on my network. They are ALL connected together with the Ethernet over power Devolo 200 plugs. I have run numberous tests of copying files between the various machines and it seems like on average I get about 45 - 50 megabits of bandwidth...or about 6 megabytes per second.

So my first questions is, if I replace my current FreeBSD server (more on that later on) with another FreeBSD server but this time it has lots of storage space on it...can I connect my Media Center PC over the Develo network to the FreeBSD server (where ALL my video is stored) and stream 720p MKV files and 1080p BluRay ISOs to it using iSCSI? I also want to connect my laptop to some storage on the FreeBSD server using iSCSI...nothing major...just accessing some documents and downloading videos to. In other words, I'll have a laptop and a media center machine connected to the FreeBSD server via iSCSI. There won't be any other machines on the LAN accessing this storage and theres no other traffic on the network.

Will iSCSI work in an environment like this and can I stream my videos over the Devolo plugs without any stuttering or performance issues?

Thank you :D
 
First question is why us iSCSI at all? To me, its not at all suited to what youre wanting to do. And if youre having playback issues with the current 6MB/sec network performance, thats not going to change with iSCSI.
 
thedge said:
First question is why us iSCSI at all? To me, its not at all suited to what youre wanting to do. And if youre having playback issues with the current 6MB/sec network performance, thats not going to change with iSCSI.
Click to expand...

Currently I'm not getting any performance issues but I don't stream any video over my LAN yet (using the Devolo plugs).

What is the best way then to centralise ones media and then have a media center machine access it (ie: client server type model)?

My first main question is *can* you stream 1080p BluRay ISO movies over this type of network where you are averaging about 45-50 megabits?
 
Those speeds are very similar to real-world wifi speeds, and lots of people have issues with streaming uncompressed 1080p BluRay video at those speeds.

But to answer your question,the best way to centralize your media would be to store it on your file servers, setup CIFS/Samba sharing, and then map to the share on your client media center. It's very easy this way once you get the shares setup.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top