Multiple IP Addresses on a Physical Network Port

[Yaron Lederman <yaronl@siliquent.com>]

John,

In the below text it says that "a network portal can be a member of one, and
only one, portal group"

However in your slides on slide 4 it seems that :
network portal: 10.1.40.22 port 3000 is shared between Target Portal A-1 &
B-1
network portal: 10.1.40.22 port 5000 is shared between Target Portal A-1 &
A-2

Could you please assist? I have not been able to resolve this from other
threads discussing this.

regards,
Yaron


-----Original Message-----
From: David Dillard [mailto:david.dillard@veritas.com]
Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 5:59 PM
To: snia ip storage twg reflector (e-mail)
Subject: IPS TWG MPG: Multiple IP Addresses on a Physical Network Port


During the concall two weeks ago someone brought up the possibility of a
physical network port having more than one IP address.  This can certainly
happen.

Within the iSCSI realm this would mean that there would be one network
portal for each of the IP addresses.  Why would this be desirable?  Well, a
network portal can be a member of one, and only one, portal group.  So, if a
user wanted to create two or more network portal groups, and that user
wanted a physical network port to be used by two or more of those portal
groups, then the user would need one network portal for each portal group
that needed to access the physical network port.  And to accomplish this the
user would need the ability to create (and therefore destroy) network
portals.


Does everyone agree with this?