iSCSI

[Peter Johansson <PJohansson@acm.org>]

At 10:25 AM 8/11/00, julian_satran@il.ibm.com wrote:

>Very good point [about Serial Bus]. Yes, we considered firewire and where 
>impressed by the SCSI serial bus as one of the better SCSI mappings.  It 
>has a great RDMA mechanism and a lean architecture.  Unfortunately it is 
>not IP and the community of users is more restricted.

Your answer suggests that you were looking at Serial Bus Protocol 2 
(SBP-2), an transport layer for Serial Bus that may be used for SCSI. 
Thanks for the compliments on its design, but I understand that it is not 
IP---and therefore not suited to your needs.

I was actually suggesting you look at Serial Bus, IEEE 1394 and IEEE 
P1394b. There is an IP protocol, specified by RFC 2734. This protocol is 
implemented in Windows ME and available for embedded applications from 
quite a few vendors.

I know that iSCSI is intended to be transport-medium agnostic, to be based 
upon IP.

If that's to be the case, I hope you continue to evaluate ALL the possible 
media: Ethernet, FCP, Serial Bus (especially P1394b) , UTP-5, etc., etc.




Regards,

Peter Johansson

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