RE: Translation vs Encapsulation

["Mesnier, Michael" <michael.mesnier@intel.com>]

iSCSI is an encapsulation protocol.  Section 3 of
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-satran-iscsi-01.txt goes into more
detail.

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Mike Mesnier
Enterprise Architecture Laboratory
Intel Corporation

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan_McConnell@Dell.com [mailto:Dan_McConnell@Dell.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2000 9:50 AM
To: ips@ece.cmu.edu
Subject: Translation vs Encapsulation


Is the iSCSI layer being designed to encapsulate SCSI Commands or to
actually pull out the SCSI command and re-issue them using iSCSI commands?

Dan McConnell
Enterprise Systems Group
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