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    Re: iSCSI : Login Phase Problems



    Raghavendra Rao wrote:
    
    > > The login phase is intended to be driven by the initiator and it is the
    > > one to decide if only a Login PDU is sufficient or it needs a Login + Text
    > > PDU. The initiator needs a mechanism to indicate to the target that a Text
    > > command will [or will not] follow the login command.
    > >
    >
    > What is being achieved by preparing the target to expect a text command after
    > login ?
    >
    > It is the responsibility of the initiator to negotiate before getting into
    > serious stuff - If it does serious stuff without negotiations, or before
    > negotiations the defaults will take effect.
    
    Your approach above is to continue login negotiation after going into full
    feature phase (as indicated by login response with "F" bit). The draft's intent
    seems to be to complete all negotiations in the login phase (prior to login
    response with "F" bit set).
    
    The current specification of login phase provides an "F" bit in the login
    response. This is of no use and provides no value-add.
    
    ( 1) when/how does the target set or not set the "F" bit ? )
    
    
    In any case, the simplest approach would be to just use a single login command
    for all negotiations. Why add all this complexity of login, followed by partial
    response, followed by text, text response and then final login response ??
    
    - Santosh
    
    
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