Re: iSCSI : Login Response PDU Issues.

[Pierre Labat <pierre_labat@hp.com>]

Matt Wakeley wrote:

> Santosh Rao wrote:
>
> > 3) Quoting from the draft :
> >
> > "In the case that the Status is reject login the initiator should
> > immediately
> > close down its end of the TCP connection, thus freeing up the target's
> > port for some other connection."
> >
> > On a REJECT, initiators may wish to retry Login. [perhaps, with a
> > modification to their Login Command PDU or TEXT parameters .
> >
> > Perhaps, the word "may" might be a better fit instead of "should" here.
>
> What is so bad with always closing a TCP connection when a login is rejected
> and opening a new TCP connection when issuing a login?  Makes it simple.  Only
> one way to do things.  Only one path to test.

As it is not on the performance path i prefer to keep it simple too. If the
target
doesn't close the connection after rejecting the login when will it do it? It
must
add some code to manage such kind of things, better to avoid.

Regards,

Pierre

>
>
> -Matt Wakeley
> Agilent Technologies
>
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Santosh