Re: FCIP: Comment 120 - connection endpoint

["Mallikarjun C." <cbm@rose.hp.com>]

Ralph,

> Mallikarjun,
> 
> > Further, I think the term "connection interface point" needs to be 
> > consistently used in the draft.   The last para on page 10 defines 
> > that the "connection interface point" is the *FCIP_DE* that's part 
> > of FCIP_LEP.  The second-to-last para on the same page further says 
> > that FCIP_LEP is on the "line" joining FCIP Entity  with the FC Entity 
> > - IOW, belongs to neither.
> 
> My search of the draft finds exactly one use of the phrase "connection
> interface point" and that usage is in the sentence under discussion in
> section 6.4 on page 12.
> 
> Looking at page 10 all I see are terms like "endpoint" and "end of
> the FCIP Link". I guess there is an assumption that "endpoint" is
> somehow synonymous with "connection interface point". 

Sorry, that's what I meant though my phrasing incorrectly implied otherwise...

>That is not
> true. The phrase "connection interface point" was chosen for the
> text in page 12 because what is being discussed on page 12 is not
> exactly the same thing as an "endpoint".
> 
> Consider the revised sentence again:
> 
>   "The FCIP Entity is the connection interface point for the IP Network 
>   and is the sole owner of at least one TCP port/IP Address combination
>   used to form TCP Connections. The TCP port may be the FCIP well
>   known  port at a given IP Address."

This is good (but see below).

> 
> Viewed in context, "connection interface point" is synonymous with
> "the place to which TCP connect requests are directed". It is not
> and is not intended to be synonymous with the endpoint of a TCP
> Connection once that TCP connection is formed.

It's unclear to me how the two are different.  In all the implementations I 
had seen, your connection endpoint is where you sent the connection 
requests to - i.e. the connection interface point.....
--
Mallikarjun

Mallikarjun Chadalapaka
Networked Storage Architecture
Network Storage Solutions
Hewlett-Packard MS 5668 
Roseville CA 95747
cbm@rose.hp.com