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

[Black_David@emc.com]

>In the case of FCIP, a scheme for framing is not to allow buffering in
> user space as perhaps could be said for iSCSI.

Again, that statement is implementation-dependent/specific, and there
may be advantages to placement even when there isn't any notion
of "user space" depending on the hardware and software architecture
of the implementation.  It's definitely possible to build FCIP nodes
that don't require framing support, BUT that doesn't mean that
all nodes will be built in that fashion (the same statement applies
to iSCSI targets, FWIW).

--David
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