RE: iSCSI: NOPs on discovery session

["John Hufferd" <hufferd@us.ibm.com>]

I do not see any reason to keep the decovery session up.  Why would it be
needed to stay up?

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"Ayman Ghanem" <aghanem@cisco.com>@ece.cmu.edu on 12/05/2001 09:37:34 PM

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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


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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
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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



                                                                            
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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