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[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: Towards Consensus on TCP connectionsThat is a very good point. We too avoided touching structures we didn't have too (this is how we ended-up with huge LUNs). Bridging will be simple for "proper networks" but might involve more logic for mapping to SCSI-2 or very simple SPI. And I would appreciate any more insights into bridging. We assume that drivers for widely available OSs will be readily available in source. Julo Stephen Bailey <steph@cs.uchicago.edu> on 17/08/2000 18:02:06 Please respond to Stephen Bailey <steph@cs.uchicago.edu> To: ips@ece.cmu.edu cc: (bcc: Julian Satran/Haifa/IBM) Subject: Re: Towards Consensus on TCP connections > It is also very important to note that SPI-4, FCP-2, and SVP are > active projects that share a goal of common packet formats to > simplify implementation of bridges between the parallel bus, > fibre channel, and VI. SST also has this goal. The addressing, and command and status formats are as similar as we could make them to FCP. It was quite handy to do this. On one hand, given the mismatch in other aspects than information unit format between iSCSI and FCP (specifically, the congestion avoidance requirements), cribbing IU format from FCP[-2] is not going to go a huge distance towards making iSCSI easier to implement. On the other hand, making everything possible about iSCSI `same as before', WILL still help substantially to anybody approaching the technology (device implementer, driver writer, etc.). For example, in SST, it was useful to be able to start with an FCP driver source and just adapt that to fit the ST layer interface. Again, not a huge deal, but it does help make it seem like a familiar task, rather than a bizarre one. Steph
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