Re: iSCSI: Digests and Multiple Connections

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

Prasenjit,

Digests and security are connection level characteristics.

Regards,
Julo

Prasenjit Sarkar/Almaden/IBM@IBMUS Sent by: owner-ips@ece.cmu.edu 11/29/2001 09:33 PM

To:        ips@ece.cmu.edu         cc:                 Subject:        iSCSI: Digests and Multiple Connections

The standard says:

When Initiator and Target agree on a digest, this digest MUST be used
for every PDU in full feature phase.

Also, it appears that digests are a session-level parameter.

Scenario:

The first connection of a multiple-connection session agrees on digests
and proceeds to full-feature phase with digests.

What about the subsequent connections that try to login? Do these
connections
suspend digests during non-full feature phase and turn it on during
full feature.

The standard is silent on this issue.


   Prasenjit Sarkar
   Research Staff Member
   IBM Almaden Research
   San Jose