RE: iFCP as an IP Storage Work Item

[Charles Monia <cmonia@NishanSystems.com>]

Hi Matt:

To clarify matters.

The response was in reference to a thread discussing a "native" iFCP device.
I assume the authors' envisioned that this would be implemented in a NIC of
some sort.  Hence, the reminder.

In any event, iFCP gateways convert iFCP to native FC.

Charles

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matt Wakeley [mailto:matt_wakeley@agilent.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 2:09 PM
> To: IPS Reflector
> Subject: Re: iFCP as an IP Storage Work Item
> 
> 
> Joshua Tseng wrote:
> > 
> > I don't want to stifle any creative technical discussion here,
> > but I feel the need to remind everybody that iFCP is positioned
> > as a gateway technology only.
> 
> If iFCP is a "gateway", that to me means that it will convert 
> FCP to iSCSI. 
> In that case, FCP is defined as a standard, and iSCSI is a 
> work in progress by
> this group.  Those building such gateways then only have to 
> figure out how to
> make one side of the gateway look native to the other.  What 
> is there to
> standardize?
> 
> -Matt Wakeley
> Agilent Technologies
>