RE: FCIP/iFCP : Guarantee In-Order delivery for FC N/NL_ports

["Y P Cheng" <ycheng@advansys.com>]

> I have a question for the FCIP and iFCP folks. Do these 2 protocols still
> assure in-order delivery of frames to the FC end nodes (N/NL_Ports)
> when requested through the "Sequential Delivery" bit in FLOGI ?
>
> Can this assurance be made even while using multiple TCP connections b/n
> edge switch/routers ?
>
> - Santosh

If I may add that most FC devices out in the market will NOT receive
out-of-order delivery because it does not go over the scatter/gather list
from beginning on every incoming frame!  So, if FCIP and iFCP wish to work
with legacy FC devices, they must learn from Brocade switches, i.e. assure
in-order delivery.

Y.P. Cheng, ConnectCom Solutions