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

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

> 
> Out-of-order is therotically possible even with FC Switch fabrics running a
> dynamic routing protocol such as FSPF, although in practice FC switches
> vendors seldom run into this condition.

A FC switch that guarantees in-order delivery by ACCing an FLOGI which is
requesting sequential delivery and then causes out-of-order traffic is
violating the FC-FS and FC-FLA standards. Out-of-order issues are avoided
in FC by requesting in-order delivery in the class sp. params of FLOGI.

- Santosh

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Santosh Rao
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