Re: summary of iSCSI meeting 22 June 2000

[David Robinson <robinson@EBay.Sun.COM>]

meth@il.ibm.com wrote:

> Further discussion of what happens when TCP packets get lost, especially if
>  they contain an iSCSI header.
> How well can iSCSI compete with FC if we are so dependent on TCP, with its
> dropped packets.
> 
> In the LAN, TCP packets are not generally lost and we should be comparable
> to FC.
> Over WAN, can have packet loss and resulting complications, but that is no
> longer competing with FC
> (which doesn't exist at all in the WAN).

Huh? TCP packets can never get lost, you either get the packet
or the connection is dropped.  There may be some delay as TCP
performs a retransmission which will be rare on LANs and not
so rare on WANs. I don't see how this is a FC vs TCP issue.

	-David