Re: ISCSI: Urgent Flag requirement violates TCP.

[Matt Wakeley <matt_wakeley@agilent.com>]

Douglas Otis wrote:

> Matt,
>
> In the same manner an urgent pointer would be useful to an analyzer, it
> would also be useful to a snooper in that this mechanism can be seen to
> weaken security.

See David Black's note.

>  Yet another reason to make this an optional feature.  As
> an analyzer would need to be fully in the path to see switched packets, an
> analyzer should be able to remain synchronous with the stream.

Doug, in order for an analyzer to remain in sync, it would have had to have
been running and capturing frames since the connection(s) was established,
which is typically not the case.

>
>
> Doug

-Matt