Re: How should a target respond if it receives a TEXT command

[Mark Burton <markb@ordern.com>]

From: Daniel Smith <dfsmith@almaden.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: How should a target respond if it receives a TEXT command
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 10:42:07 -0800 (PST)

> Mark Burton wrote:
> > 
> > I realise that it is an error, what I want to know is, what is the
> > "approved" error response that the target should produce if this
> > situation occurs?
> 
> If I were the target, I'd drop the TCP connection because the initiator is
> obviously not talking iSCSI.  (On the premise that dropping the connection
> is probably better than sending back something that could be
> misinterpreted.)
> -- 
> IBM Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, CA 95120-6099, USA
> 

That sounds reasonable to me. If the initiator is broken enough to
send a TEXT before a LOGIN then it deserves to be ditched.

Thanks,

Mark