Re: iSCSI: Logout request

[Paul Koning <ni1d@arrl.net>]

Excerpt of message (sent 30 April 2002) by Mallikarjun C.:
> >The target may have good reasons to want a
> > particular connection or session to be closed but allowing a new login
> > to occur right after that.
> 
> It is a legal possibility, but I think it's unlikely for the reasons described 
> above.  If the NIC is being replaced on the target end, an immediate new 
> Login attempt will fail.

Not necessarily, and that's why I bring up the issue.

If the target has multiple NICs, and one of them has to be taken out
of service, it may be that it can move the address (but not the open
session and connection state) to another NIC.  In that case, a "target
request logout" is the mechanism it would want to use to initiate that
operation, and if the initiator then follows up with a new login,
everything works smoothly.

	   paul