Re: iSCSI: Logout for a Session

[Santosh Rao <santoshr@cup.hp.com>]

Matt Wakeley wrote:

> Throughout the iSCSI document, it talks about the logout command closing a TCP
> connection.  Especially for the purposes of error recover to terminate a TCP
> connection and "clean up" so that another TCP connection can be established to
> continue the session.  There seems to be no way to indicate that a session is
> being terminated.
>
> There should be a flag in the logout command that indicates that the *session*
> is being terminated (as well as the TCP connection).
>

There is. Look at the "Reason Code" field in the Logout Command PDU. (Section
2.14 of the draft dated dec 30, 2000).

- Santosh Rao
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