RE: iSCSI: NOPs on discovery session

["Ayman Ghanem" <aghanem@cisco.com>]

Julian,

 

I would vote for allowing it. Is the spec going to require the initiator to logout immediately after the SendTargets response is received?. Should the target drop the session after it had sent the response?. I am not sure how the discovery session could be misused. It has been authenticated like any other session and has only limited set of commands. One could also argue the need for logout on a discovery session as opposed to just closing the connection.

 

-Ayman

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ips@ece.cmu.edu [mailto:owner-ips@ece.cmu.edu]On Behalf Of Julian Satran
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 1:05 AM
To: ips@ece.cmu.edu
Subject: Re: iSCSI: NOPs on discovery session

Ayman,

It is true that I agreed that we may want to have it. However some members of the list have expressed immediately a strong opposition to it claiming that it was no strictly needed (true) and that discovery section are meant to be brief.
I felt thus that we don't have a consensus on that and we may want to try again.
I assume that the main concern was that this will enable discovery sessions to be become long lived and be used as a back door monitoring channel.

Regards,
Julo

"Ayman Ghanem" <aghanem@cisco.com> Sent by: owner-ips@ece.cmu.edu 12-04-01 05:30 AM

To:        <ips@ece.cmu.edu>         cc:                 Subject:        iSCSI: NOPs on discovery session

Julian,

I thought we agreed to adding NOPs to the operations allowed on the
discovery session. I couldn't find that in draft-09. Thanks.

-Ayman