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

["Douglas Otis" <dotis@sanlight.net>]

David,

For what it's worth, I am not making such fine distinctions.  I was
attempting to discuss a reason for including a time-stamp should such
placement be onto FC media.  (Looking to the day when there is a means to
handle out of sequence frames.)

Doug

>
> >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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