iscsi : Re : iSCSI PDU Formats

[Santosh Rao <santoshr@cup.hp.com>]

Julian & All,

I support Bob Russell's suggestion below to split the CXnSG field into 2
separate fields, namely, CS & NS. This keeps the coding and manipulation
of this structure field simpler.

Thanks,
Santosh

Bob Russell wrote :

> 2. The Login Request and Login Response PDUs now have a new 4-bit
>    field labelled CNxSG.  This field consists of 2 2-bit parts.
> 
>    I propose labeling each part separately -- bits 0-1 to be
>    labeled "CS" for Current Stage, bits 2-3 "NS" for Next Stage.
>  
>  I believe this makes understanding and coding much simpler,
>  because in all cases these fields are interpreted separately,
>  and when the T bit is 0 the Next Stage has to be ignored.
>  It is a lot easier to ignore it if it is a separate field.
>
>
>Thank you.
>
>Bob Russell
>InterOperability Lab
>University of New Hampshire
>rdr@iol.unh.edu
>603-862-3774




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