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

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

> > Hence, by just changing the protocol, the problem does not go away.
>
> Not sure what you mean here. Changing which protocols ?

By reading this reflector, you must know my opinion about the overlapping
functionality of iFCP and iSCSI.  I consider them as two different protocols
solving the same set of problems, i.e. long Internet latency, congestion,
lossy connections, duplicated or missing frames, R_A_TOV values, target
device naming and discovery, etc., etc.  Hence, why two protocols solving
the same set of problems?  (I must qualify that iFCP and FCIP do not have to
solve the message framing issue.  Each FCP IU is a separate frame/sequence.
But, if iFCP and FCIP use TCP encapsulation, then, we back to square zero.)