Re: Requirements specification

[David Robinson <David.Robinson@EBay.Sun.COM>]

> It would be nice if you would share with us:
> 
>    what are the "wonderful rerouting properties" you are referring to ?
>    what is the link technology to do failover ?
> 
> I am sure only about myself but I guess that many of us are ignorant on the
> above.

Walk up to any well designed IP network (some ISP's machine room) and
randomly cut a network cable, everything just keeps working.  Routers
detect dead links and use another redundant link.  IP technology is
giving the Pentagon headaches, no longer does bombing one facility
wipe out a command and control network. Cheap technology from Cisco
defeats million dollar bombs!

> As for availability - several connections and a failover mechanism will
> make
> a solution more reliable. The question is who is doing the failover.

Doing failover between multiple parallel or FC SCSI channels is very
well known and in wide practice today.  Why is it then a requirement
that we put it into iSCSI?

	-David