RE: iSCSI-12-95: header digest error clarification

[Paul Koning <ni1d@arrl.net>]

>>>>> "Pat" == A-Roseville,ex1  <THALER> writes:

 Pat> Paul, I started to write text like that, but it subtlely
 Pat> disallows some reasonable alternatives. For instance, if you use
 Pat> FIM to find the a header, you haven't determined where the PDU
 Pat> ends and you may be discarding multiple PDUs so the simpler text
 Pat> would require closing the connection.

 Pat> That is why I wrote in terms of finding a valid header and
 Pat> discarding up to the header.

Good point.  With that in mind I prefer your first suggested text.

     paul
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 pat> Julian, I'm not sure how explicit we have to be about the
 pat> solution, but right now there is a MUST that isn't really
 pat> achievable. It says one MUST discard the PDU but the
 pat> implementation doesn't know what the PDU is. One possibility is:
 
 pat> ... MUST close the connection or attempt to find a valid header
 pat> and discard everything from the bad header to the valid header.
 
 pat> or...