RE: Draft San Diego minutes

["Douglas Otis" <dotis@sanlight.net>]

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> Somesh Gupta (HP) proposed another option -- periodic alignment instead of
> periodic marker.  There could be a requirement in iSCSI that an
upper-layer header
> appear every n kbytes in the TCP stream.  Padding could be used to make
sure this
> happens.  Requires API change to TCP/IP stack.

Why would placing a PDU at a fixed number of bytes impact the TCP stack?
This can be done above TCP within the application.  Making the alignment
interval a power of two keeps the modulo business simple.

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Doug