How To Install iscsiuio on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install iscsiuio on Kali Linux. iscsiuio is iSCSI offloading daemon for QLogic devices

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install iscsiuio on Kali Linux.

What is iscsiuio

iscsiuio is:

The Open-iSCSI project is a high-performance, transport independent, multi-platform implementation of RFC3720 iSCSI.

This tool is to be used in conjunction with the QLogic NetXtreme II Linux driver (Kernel module name: ‘bnx2’ and ‘bnx2x’), QLogic CNIC driver, and the QLogic iSCSI driver (Kernel module name: ‘bnx2i’).

This user space tool is used in conjunction with the following QLogic Network Controllers: bnx2: BCM5706, BCM5708, BCM5709 devices bnx2x: BCM57710, BCM57711, BCM57711E, BCM57712, BCM57712E, BCM57800, BCM57810, BCM57840 devices

This utility will provide the ARP and DHCP functionality for the iSCSI offload. The communication to the driver is done via Userspace I/O (Kernel module name ‘uio’).

This package is required to offload iSCSI onto these devices.

There are three methods to install iscsiuio on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install iscsiuio Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install iscsiuio using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install iscsiuio

Install iscsiuio Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install iscsiuio using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install iscsiuio

Install iscsiuio Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install iscsiuio using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install iscsiuio

How To Uninstall iscsiuio on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the iscsiuio package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove iscsiuio

Uninstall iscsiuio And Its Dependencies

To uninstall iscsiuio and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove iscsiuio

Remove iscsiuio Configurations and Data

To remove iscsiuio configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge iscsiuio

Remove iscsiuio configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove iscsiuio configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge iscsiuio

Dependencies

iscsiuio have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install iscsiuio package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.