Re: Urgent as Framing Hint?

["John H Dowdy" <jdowdy@us.ibm.com>]

Randall liked the idea of the magic number. The following statement
concerns me, though:
> I personally like this idea a lot, because any "middleboxes" that screw
> with checksums (even to check them) or translate streams will be
discovered
> and shamed publicly for their egregious violation of layering.

Won't this be yet another way for NAT boxes to break iSCSI sessions? I.e.,
a NAT box will change
addresses AND TCP checksums - typically, they delta the checksum based on
the changes made
to IP addresses. Nevertheless, won't any change to the magic number break
it's usefullness?

John Dowdy - SSG Development
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