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

[Matt Wakeley <matt_wakeley@agilent.com>]

Please explain why/how you think iFCP and FCIP do not require the use of TCP?

-Matt Wakeley

Y P Cheng wrote:
> 
> > > 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.)