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[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] RE: FCIP iFCP encapsulation proposalSorry, I think we have a severe case of red herring here. Any number of unlikely scenarios has been hypothesized, none of which (assuming there is any security in creating a TCP/IP connection at all) will cause any useful or dangerous behavior in either a SCSI target or a SCSI initiator. As an example, the information transmitted by FTP is first processed into FTP messages, which are then inserted on IP transfer units, which are then placed into Ethernet or other transport frames. Those frames have addressing which routes them to a destination. The IP layer unpackages the IP units, which are in turn unpackaged into FTP units for treatment by an FTP protocol only. Even if you delivered an FTP string transferring a bit-level trace to an FCIP device (not normally possible, because there would have had to be a TCP/IP connection formed between the FTP emitter and the FCIP receiver) the FTP encapsulation of the data could never be interpreted as legal SCSI commands by a SCSI device. The FTP string would not invoke the necessary valid responses for the statefully responding SCSI device. Bob
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