RE: iSCSI: corrections to Appendix D:SendTargets

[Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@wasabisystems.com>]

On Wed, 5 Jun 2002 pat_thaler@agilent.com wrote:

> Marjorie,
>
> IP addresses shouldn't be changed to TCP addresses because that could
> be interpreted as meaning it needs to support SendTargets on ports connected to
> non-iSCSI ports.
>
> Thinking about that, I also don't think it should be required to support
> disovery sessions on each IP address. It seems reasonable for a system to have
> some IP addresses that aren't connected to an iSCSI protocol at all. For example
> one might build a box with storage that does both iSCSI and NAT and one might choose
> to use different IP addresses for those two services. One might do that because the
> services are on different LAN interfaces or for numerous other reasons.
>
> I think the text should be something more like: "on each IP address that supports
> iSCSI".

I see your point, but I also see Marjorie's point.

How about "on each TCP port that supports iSCSI." ? That way we are
sepecific that we're talking about TCP, and that only iSCSI-related ports
support discovery sessions, which I think is the intent of the WG. :-)

Take care,

Bill