RE: Concensus Call on Urgent Pointer.

["HAAGENS,RANDY (HP-Roseville,ex1)" <randy_haagens@hp.com>]

Clive,

You are welcome to exhibit such an alternative mechanism.

Randy Haagens
Director, Networked Storage Architecture
Storage Organization
Hewlett-Packard Co.
e-mail: Randy_Haagens@hp.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: Clive Philbrick [mailto:clive@alacritech.com]
Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 3:03 PM
To: ips@ece.cmu.edu
Subject: Re: Concensus Call on Urgent Pointer.


We too are prepared to support an URGENT mechanism that includes negotiation
and that is "making it an option for both sides".

It is worth pointing out that since the whole thrust of the mechanism is
solely to
attempt to deal with dropped frames in a efficient manner in a TCP offload
environment, there are already working alternatives out there that
effectively deal
with dropped frames in these environments. They do not need the URGENT
mechanism,
nor do they have huge SRAM resources. That said, it is conceivable that an
URGENT
mechanism could help, although it would not be considered low hanging fruit
in terms
of performance gains expected.

Clive Philbrick
Alacritech

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