Re: TCP speed

["Randall R. Stewart" <randall@stewart.chicago.il.us>]

Scott Bradner wrote:
> 
> > I do believe TCP is a wrong protocol for iSCSI.  A SCSI request from an
> > initiator is inherently acknowledged by its response from a target.
> > Therefore, UDP for iSCSI is a better choice.  NFS is implemented on UDP.
> 
> the ips working group can decide to do something over UDP but
> it should note that the result has to deal with congestion in a TCP-friendly
> way - I expect that the WG will find that its not an easy requirement
> to meet - I personally think that it would not be a good use of the WGs time
> to spend a good chunk of a year trying to get that right
> 
> Scott (with AD hat on)

If one were to go down this path (foolishly I might add),
I think one year would not be enough time.. two would be 
closer to the mark..

It is quite a lot of work, it can be both fun and educating,
but I do think that IPS has a lot of alternatives besides treading
these paths :)

R
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