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    RE: iSCSI Naming and Discovery



    
    
    John,
    
    I have some trouble following you.
    
    Regular commands that address a device within a session and use
    a binary 8 byte LUN to address a device.
    
    This is (for a while) true also for third party commands.
    
    The login used to build a session has a text portion but it is addressing a
    target not
    a device.
    
    Are you suggesting that we use a "text appendix" to every command?
    
    That would be rather expensive.
    
    Julo
    
    "John Hufferd/San Jose/IBM" <hufferd@us.ibm.com> on 06/10/2000 12:59:00
    
    Please respond to "John Hufferd/San Jose/IBM" <hufferd@us.ibm.com>
    
    To:   ips@ece.cmu.edu
    cc:    (bcc: Julian Satran/Haifa/IBM)
    Subject:  RE: iSCSI Naming and Discovery
    
    
    
    
    Julian,
    I do not think Joshua's problem is getting a LUN number, it is getting
    through a IP to FC gateway (which might include a switch type function) to
    the approprate Storage Controller with an approprate WWN.   I think the
    proposal that Costa had which is just the inclusion in the Text of the
    Login command (in the field called "Target:") should be most of what is
    needed.  The name gets resolved at each step along the IP path (which is
    normal DNS resolution), and then when the IP to FC gateway is reached, it
    can use the end of the "Target:" Text Sting (following the last "/") to get
    to the approprate qualifier which will identify the target Storage
    Controller.   This will work the best, if the Text field also has a field
    called "WWN:".  The text that followed that "WWN:" field would be the WWN
    that the IP to FC gateway wishes to proxy as the original Host initiator
    WWN. Every thing else like Report LUNs, etc.  should still work as today,
    after the proxy connection is established.
    
    .
    .
    .
    John L. Hufferd
    
    
    julian_satran@il.ibm.com@ece.cmu.edu on 10/06/2000 01:46:32 AM
    
    Sent by:  owner-ips@ece.cmu.edu
    
    
    To:   ips@ece.cmu.edu
    cc:
    Subject:  RE: iSCSI Naming and Discovery
    
    
    
    
    
    Joshua & John,
    
    If the troublesome item is for a "knowledgeable" gateway to to FC to get a
    hold on LUNs
    then this can be done within the current draft.
    The LUN in the PDUs is an 8byte "object" opaque to iSCSI.
    An initiator can choose to put there a WWN to be replaced (rewritten) by
    the gateway with
    a LUN or nay such commbination.  This operation is stateless.
    
    Julo
    
    "Joshua Tseng/Nishan Systems" <joshua.tseng@NishanSystems.com> on
    05/10/2000 22:26:01
    
    Please respond to "Joshua Tseng/Nishan Systems"
          <joshua.tseng@NishanSystems.com>
    
    To:   ips@ece.cmu.edu
    cc:    (bcc: Julian Satran/Haifa/IBM)
    Subject:  RE: iSCSI Naming and Discovery
    
    
    
    
    John,
    
    >Joshua,
    >I think the LU being part of the "/Modifier" is a bit problematical.  You
    >should focus on the connections each end, and let the LU stuff be
    >transparent to your Gateway.  They will of course use Report LUNs and
    >Inquiry and use their approprate LU number, I am having problems
    >understanding why a gateway would need to know the LU number.
    >
    >Could you resend your note without the LUN stuff so that we can see, a
    >little easier, what you think is really needed.
    
    You are right...my bad.  The LUN is carried in the iSCSI PDU.
    What is needed in the Fibre Channel World Wide Port Name (WWPN),
    which the gateway will need in order to address the Fibre Channel
    device.  The gateway/proxy should register this attribute key in
    the name server (yes Doug--an LDAP-based server) for retrieval by
    the iSCSI initiator, who can use it in the /modifier when addressing
    the Fibre Channel target.
    
    Josh
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    


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