RE: iSCSI: large keys during login?

[Eddy Quicksall <eddyq@ivivity.com>]

Regarding the following sentence in 9.10.4, can we say the key and equal sign most not be spanned? The reason I ask for this is because it makes the parsing of the key much easier if you don't have it cut into two PDUs.

 

A key=value pair can span Text request or response boundaries (i.e., a

key=value pair can start in one PDU and continue on the next).

 

Eddy

-----Original Message-----
From: Julian Satran [mailto:Julian_Satran@il.ibm.com]
Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 8:35 PM
To: THALER,PAT (A-Roseville,ex1)
Cc: andy currid; ips@ece.cmu.edu; owner-ips@ece.cmu.edu; Bill Studenmund
Subject: RE: iSCSI: large keys during login?

Pat,

For spanning look at 9.10.4 and 9.11.4.

I assume that the text covers whatever does not fit.


Regards,
Julo

"THALER,PAT (A-Roseville,ex1)" <pat_thaler@agilent.com> 04/30/2002 02:24 AM Please respond to "THALER,PAT (A-Roseville,ex1)"

To:        Julian Satran/Haifa/IBM@IBMIL, Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@wasabisystems.com>         cc:        andy currid <andy@windriver.com>, ips@ece.cmu.edu, owner-ips@ece.cmu.edu         Subject:        RE: iSCSI: large keys during login?

Julian,
 
I assume you mean that keys can span requests as well. I can't find anything in the draft that says that they can though there also isn't anything that says they can't. Does this only apply to key-value pairs too long to fit in a single response or can a short key-value pair span a request/response when multiple key-value pairs are packed into a PDU?
 
The draft should clarify.
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Julian Satran [mailto:Julian_Satran@il.ibm.com]
Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 3:54 PM
To: Bill Studenmund
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Subject: Re: iSCSI: large keys during login?


Key can span responses. Bookmarking is for things that have multiple answers - like the SendTargets - Julo

Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@wasabisystems.com> Sent by: owner-ips@ece.cmu.edu 04/30/2002 01:15 AM Please respond to Bill Studenmund

To:        andy currid <andy@windriver.com>        cc:        <ips@ece.cmu.edu>        Subject:        Re: iSCSI: large keys during login?

On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, andy currid wrote:

>
> Hi
>
> In iSCSI draft 12, chapter 10, the Kerberos and SPKM authentication
> mechanisms specify a limit of 64k on their unencoded key values.
>
> Given that these keys are only used during login and, during login,
> the PDU size in use is 8k and, unlike text commands, there is no
> bookmarking, how can you send a key value of this size during login?

I thought that was covered. If you say you can do kerberos or SPKM, you
are saying you can do 64k.

Take care,

Bill