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    Multi Connection Sessions and Active/Passive Targets



    Hello,
    
    I have a question regarding how the multi-connection session model would
    work with Active/Passive target devices :
    
    Consider the standard usage of multiple TCP connections within an 
    iSCSI session, where the initiator and target setup each connection 
    per available network interface port. THe intent here is to allow the SCSI
    traffic to be spread across the available netowrk interface ports for the
    purpose of load balancing, etc.
    
    However, in the case of Active/Passive SCSI targets, traffic should be
    sent only on the active port. Such multi connection sessions would not
    distingush between the active and passive ports, causing traffic to be
    sent to the passive port and active port. 
    
    The use of multiple connections per session needs to be turned off when
    speaking to such active/passive devices. (unless such devices dedicate a
    group of network interface ports as active and passive). 
    A couple of ways that come to mind to do this are :
    
    a) Initiators maintain knowledge of active/passive device types and will
    not initiate more than 1 TCP connection per session on such device types.
    However, the recognition of the active/passive device would be based on the VID/PID fields in the response to an INQUIRY command, which makes this a
    rather cumbersome approach.
    
    b) Targets should indicate MaxConnections as 1 in their iSCSI LOGIN 
    response for active/passive devices. This removes the need for initiators 
    to detect Active/Passive devices and ensure the usage of the appropriate 
    single or multiple tcp connections per session based on the device type.
    
    Any thoughts on this ?
    
    Thanks,
    Santosh
    correct usage of mul
    
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    #################################
    Santosh Rao
    Software Design Engineer,
    HP, Cupertino.
    email : santoshr@cup.hp.com
    Phone : 408-447-3751
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