Multipath and iSCSI on 11.10

[Albert Chin]

I have device-mapper-multipath configured with iSCSI. I have two
interfaces configured to communicate with the iSCSI server. I discover
and connect with the iSCSI targets as follows:
  (1) # iscsiadm -m discovery -t st -p 10.191.61.1:3260 -I iface1 -P 1
  (2) # iscsiadm -m discovery -t st -p 10.191.62.1:3260 -I iface2 -P 1
  (3) # iscsiadm -m node -p 10.191.61.1:3260 -I iface1 -l
  (4) # iscsiadm -m node -p 10.191.62.1:3260 -I iface2 -l
  # cat /etc/multipath.conf
  defaults {
    selector             "round-robin 0"
    udev_dir             /dev
    user_friendly_names  yes
  }
  blacklist {
    devnode "^(ram|raw|loop|fd|md|dm-|sr|scd|st)[0-9]*"
    devnode "^hd[a-z]"
    devnode "^sda[0-9]"
    devnode "^sdb[0-9]"
  }
  multipaths {
    multipath {
      wwid  3600144f057774b0000004ebf539e001d
      alias sai
    }
    multipath {
      wwid  3600144f057774b0000004eeab58a0001
      alias winry
    }
    multipath {
      device {
        vendor OI
        product COMSTAR
      }
    }
  }
  # multipath -ll
  winry (3600144f057774b0000004eeab58a0001) dm-24 OI,COMSTAR
  size=500G features='0' hwhandler='0' wp=rw
  |-+- policy='round-robin 0' prio=1 status=active
  | `- 12:0:0:0 sdd  8:48   active ready running
  `-+- policy='round-robin 0' prio=1 status=enabled
    `- 41:0:0:0 sdae 65:224 active ready running
  sai (3600144f057774b0000004ebf539e001d) dm-9 OI,COMSTAR
  size=500G features='0' hwhandler='0' wp=rw
  |-+- policy='round-robin 0' prio=1 status=active
  | `- 17:0:0:0 sdv  65:80  active ready running
  `-+- policy='round-robin 0' prio=1 status=enabled
    `- 54:0:0:0 sdai 66:32  active ready running
  ...

1. Based on the above multipath -ll output, it seems that I am not
   load-balancing across both NICs. Why not? 
2. When I boot the system, the initiator does not log in to any
   target. Therefore, I need to rerun (3) and (4) above. Why?

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albert chin (china at thewrittenword.com)