RE: iSCSI: CONNECT message (was Naming/Discovery/URLs)

["Douglas Otis" <dotis@sanlight.net>]

Costa,

Forgive my ignorance, but is there a reason why a tunneling protocol is not
used to get past the NAT or Firewall?  Why is there a gateway-in specific to
only this protocol?

Doug

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ips@ece.cmu.edu [mailto:owner-ips@ece.cmu.edu]On Behalf Of
> csapuntz@cisco.com
> Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2000 4:05 PM
> To: Jim Hafner/Almaden/IBM
> Cc: ips@ece.cmu.edu; csapuntz@cisco.com
> Subject: Re: iSCSI: CONNECT message (was Naming/Discovery/URLs)
>
>
>
> Jim,
>
> I like your CONNECT message proposal quite a bit. Making the CONNECT
> message the first message of the TCP connection will simplify the
> gateway's implementation.
>
> However, I worry about gateways that would like to authenticate the
> initiator prior to allowing the connection to proceed. Do you have any
> thoughts on how to make that work well?
>
> -Costa
>