Re: iSCSI: NOPs on discovery session

["Julian Satran" <Julian_Satran@il.ibm.com>]

Ron,

We are defining a wire protocol so that we should not be concerned if 
closing is mandatary or not.
An open discovery session could be used (with proprietary exchanges) to 
announce new LUN and target creation.

Julo




"Ron Cohen" <rcohen@eurologic.com>
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This brings up an interesting point:

Is it intended that discovery sessions remain open?
Should an initiator close a discovery session after the SendTargets 
command
has completed?
Should a target request a logout and session closure if an initiator does
not close the session?
What would the application of leaving a discovery session open be?

Ron


----- Original Message -----
From: "Ayman Ghanem" <aghanem@cisco.com>
To: <ips@ece.cmu.edu>
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 4:29 AM
Subject: iSCSI: NOPs on discovery session


> Julian,
>
> I am not sure if this came up before, but we also need to include 
NOP-OUT
to
> the set of commands allowed on the discovery session. An initiator may
keep
> the discovery session active, and send NOP-OUT to ping the target, or in
> response to a target ping.
>
> -Ayman
>
>