RE: iSCSI: Logout for a Session

[julian_satran@il.ibm.com]

Not necessarily. After a while yes but for a brief interval you may want to
open another connection and recover.

Julo

"Grun, Paul" <paul.grun@intel.com> on 11/01/2001 00:16:46

Please respond to "Grun, Paul" <paul.grun@intel.com>

To:   "'Matt Wakeley'" <matt_wakeley@agilent.com>, IPS Reflector
      <ips@ece.cmu.edu>
cc:
Subject:  RE: iSCSI: Logout for a Session





Isn't a session terminated when the last TCP connection is closed?
-paul

Paul Grun
Intel Corporation
Enterprise Platform Group
Fabric Components Division
(503) 677-6768
paul.grun@intel.com <mailto:paul.grun@intel.com>


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matt Wakeley [mailto:matt_wakeley@agilent.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 12:59 PM
> To: IPS Reflector
> Subject: iSCSI: Logout for a Session
>
>
> Throughout the iSCSI document, it talks about the logout
> command closing a TCP
> connection.  Especially for the purposes of error recover to
> terminate a TCP
> connection and "clean up" so that another TCP connection can
> be established to
> continue the session.  There seems to be no way to indicate
> that a session is
> being terminated.
>
> There should be a flag in the logout command that indicates
> that the *session*
> is being terminated (as well as the TCP connection).
>
> -Matt Wakeley
> Agilent Technologies
>