RE: iSCSI: keys/parameter dependence

[pat_thaler@agilent.com]

Robert,

Responding to:
This does, however, bring up another question.  When the C bit is 0,
the receiver of that PDU does not seem to be required to send replies
to the keys it has received up to that point -- it could send
another empty PDU, or more likely, it could send new offers of its
own.  It seems to me that there is nothing in the draft that says
when replies to keys should be sent, only that they MUST be sent.

There wasn't any requirement for how soon one responded to keys before
the C bit was created. I don't think any such requirement is needed.
One makes ones offers. If they haven't been responded too by the end
of the negotiation session - e.g. the target sets the T bit without 
having sent responses to all the Initiator's keys or the target times
out waiting for the Initiator to respond to keys it sent - then the
negotiation failed and the side that detected it should close the
connection.

Regards,
Pat