Re: Multiple TCP Connections

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

owner-ips@ece.cmu.edu wrote on 14/04/2003 09:22:49:

> Hi ,
> 
>    1) Multiple TCP connections in iSCSI are required to
for implementing 
> concurrency and for achieving failover in iSCSI. Can anyone illustrate
> examples for these, so as to give me a better understanding about
how this 
> works?
For concurrency - if a 4Gb/s link is what you need
for your connection you should be able to aggregate 4 1Gb/s links.
Likewise if you have high availbaility requirements
you should be able to continue operations as long as you can establish
at least one connection
>    2) Do iSCSI tasks have to be executed in the same order
as available from 
> the SCSI layer?. Secondly, can there be multiple tasks pending between
an 
> Initiator and Target ?
> 
The order of execution is controlled by both SCSI
and target.
Tagged task can be executed in one of several orderings
Several tasks can be pending.
> Thanx in advance,
> P.S
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