Re: [iSCSI:] Logout request -- reason? Correction

["Julian Satran" <Julian_Satran@il.ibm.com>]

Reason  & Function codes are there for several request types. (e.g., task management).

I did announce my intent to move it there for uniformity  - a long time ago - when it was requested by a list member - and waited for comments.

Julo

BTW - you appear to be sending mail from ns.splentec.com and a reply there ends always with bounced mail.

Luben Tuikov <luben@splentec.com> Sent by: luben@ns.splentec.com 05/27/2002 04:48 PM Please respond to Luben Tuikov

To:        iSCSI <ips@ece.cmu.edu>, Julian Satran/Haifa/IBM@IBMIL         cc:                 Subject:        [iSCSI:] Logout request -- reason? Correction

Let me correct this:

I was under the impression that byte 1 in BHS
is a flags byte -- i.e. bit values.
 
I now see that the reason code is moved exactly there,
in the Logout request PDU.
 
Could anyone please explain the logic behind this?

At the same time byte 2 and 3 are reserved to 0.

Why don't we:

1)  Move the reason code to byte 2. This will
    make it _consistent_ with the response byte
    in Logout Response.

2)  Make the value start at 0x80, as to hide
    the ugliness of F = 1, and the fact that
    we are trying to fit a numerical value (!)
    and a bit value (!) in the same octet.

Comments?

--
Luben