Re: FCIP: Comment 120

[Ralph Weber <ralphoweber@compuserve.com>]

"Mallikarjun C." wrote:

> Upon further thought, it appears to me that the "Destination FC/FCIP
> Entity Identifier" should be sent and received in the FSF.  I can not 
> think of a way currently to build an FCIP_LEP with multiple FCIP_DEs 
> - for ex., how would a sender indicate his intention to add a TCP 
> connection to an FC/FCIP Entity Pair that it's already communicating 
> with?

I would think that sending a TCP connect request to the same IP Address
and Port as was used in the previous TCP connect request would achieve
the intended result.

The only alternative would be to REQUIRE SLP interrogation before every
TCP connect request, and even then there would be zero assurance that
the IP universe would not shape shift between the SLP activities and
the TCP connect request.

Surely, there is some stability in IP addressing.

Thanks.

.Ralph