RE: iSCSI-boot: comments

["Douglas Otis" <dotis@sanlight.net>]

Bill,

I agree. For SCTP-DDP there should be a generalized protocol negotiation
similar to an RPC port mapper to identify the PPI and Stream.  If so, then
there is just a need to identify the transport perhaps using an IANA
registration.  SCTP-X, SCTP-DDP, DDCP, etc...

 -Doug

On May 7, 2002 10:00 AM Bill StudenMund (wrstuden@wasabisystems.com) wrote:
>
> On Mon, 6 May 2002, Mallikarjun C. wrote:
>
> > >
> > >   - The IP address of the iSCSI boot client (IPv4 or IPv6)
> > >
> > >   - The IP transport endpoint for the iSCSI service delivery port for
> > >   the iSCSI boot server.  If the transport is TCP, for example, this
> > >   has to resolve to an IP address and a TCP port number.
> >
> > It is useful to note that iSCSI currently is defined only for TCP.
>
> While it is true now, I understand there has been some interested in
> adding support for iSCSI over sctp at some point in the future (obviously
> after we have iSCSI/tcp :-) . So it would be nice to at least have an idea
> for how to specify another transport in the future. Also, if the spec
> lists a way to specify transport now, whenever a new transport comes out,
> iscsi booting devices can make sure they aren't configured to use a
> transport they don't understand. :-)
>
> Take care,
>
> Bill
>