iSCSI: Connection establishment criteria

["Nandakumar Ramamurthy" <nramamur@npd.hcltech.com>]

Hi All,


Consider the following :
An initiator and a target have established a session ( Leading login has
been successful ).
Thus, we have one connection between the initiator and target (the leading
connection).
Also assume MaxConnections has been agreed upon by both ends as X ( 2 or
more ).

My question is :
What situations/conditions/events make the initiator to establish subsequent
connections ?

From my understanding, one definite event is when the leading connection
goes down,
thus, making the initiator to establish a new connection (for continuing the
session ) which
holds true even if MaxConnections = 1.

Are the second and later connection(s) attempted immediately after the first
connection is successful ?

A seemingly related question on the alias earlier (from the mailing
archives) suggests that connection
establishment/selection is done by an iSCSI initiator to improve
bandwidth/availability.
Does this mean that "when to spawn consecutive connections" is purely
implementation dependent ?

Does any section of the draft clarify my question ?

Please clarify.

Thanks,
Nandakumar.