Keith Moore: Re: Storage over Ethernet/IP

[Dave Nagle <bassoon@yogi.ece.cmu.edu>]

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Date:    Fri, 26 May 2000 10:23:06 -0400
From:    Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>
To:      "Jon William Toigo" <jtoigo@IntNet.net>
cc:      ietf@ietf.org
Subject: Re: Storage over Ethernet/IP 

None of the cited limitations of TCP performance are true.
they are also missing the point.

If you're going to run storage access over IP then you are potentially
allowing it to be run over the global Internet.  If you do that you need
good authentication and privacy, and (if you try to do them in software)
authentication and encyption will eat far more in performance than 
anything inherent to TCP or IP.

and no, it's not acceptable to assume that the storage device will be 
behind a firewall.

Keith

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