RE: iSCSI: Question about CID

["Henderson, Steve" <SHenderson@pirus.com>]

Since the login response is returned on the same connection as the login
command came in on, the initiator knows that its the login on that
connection that is being accepted ( or rejected ).

Passing the CID back in the login reply at offset 8 is not what the RFC
defines ( although it doesn't seem an unreasonable idea). Since that place
in the login response is reserved, a very picky initiator implementation
might object that the field contained a non zero value.

Steve


-----Original Message-----
From: rbg@ipperformance.com [mailto:rbg@ipperformance.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 1:28 PM
To: Ayman.M.Ghanem@seagate.com
Cc: ips@ece.cmu.edu
Subject: Re: iSCSI: Question about CID



I'm passing it back at the same offset (8) in the login reply. 

Robert.. 

> On Wed, 23 Aug 2000 10:19:31 -0500 you said:
> I have a question about the CID field sent by the initiator in a login
> message.
> When the target sends back login accepted, how does the initiator know
> which
> login request was accepted (in case it wants to establish multiple
> connections
> per session with each connection requiring a login)?. The login response
> does
> not return the CID to the initiator.
> 
> -Ayman
> 
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