RE: FCIP iFCP encapsulation proposal

[Douglas Otis <dotis@sanlight.net>]

Bob,

Such data could be stored in a binary file and this image could be relayed
within the encapsulation as components of this file image.

Doug

> Sorry, 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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