Re: Status summary on multiple connections

[julian_satran@il.ibm.com]

Matt,

Only a small correction. The draft out is the second draft. The first
version  (00.txt) was
a multi-connection asymmetric solution without any connection allegiance
for data.
The current draft is the first having the symmetric flavor.

Julo


Matt Wakeley <matt_wakeley@agilent.com> on 29/09/2000 06:31:21

Please respond to Matt Wakeley <matt_wakeley@agilent.com>

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Subject:  Re: Status summary on multiple connections




John Hufferd/San Jose/IBM wrote:

> I am troubled with the fact that I think many folks have already built
> iSCSI Initiators and Targets that use just one connection per session.
>
> But what about the implementations that are currently in flight.

A couple thoughts on worrying about "implementations in flight".  First
off,
the posted version of the iSCSI spec is the first published version, and
was
certainly not complete.  No one should be hard coding to that spec.
Especially
in light that David Black has decided that parts of it are to be ripped out
(what if I had been implementing a solution that required multiple TCP
connections or command reference numbers and then you take it away?).
Second,
all the current "implementations" are either (a) proprietary, mostly UDP
based
FCP tunneling implementations, or (b) demo projects to demonstrate
feasibility.  I don't think we have to worry about existing "in flight"
implementations based on the first draft.  After a few revs of the
document,
that will be a different story...

-Matt