RE: iSCSI reqmts and Ethernet adapters

[Charles Monia <cmonia@NishanSystems.com>]

Hi Marj:

See below.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: KRUEGER,MARJORIE (HP-Roseville,ex1)
> [mailto:marjorie_krueger@hp.com]
> Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 3:51 PM
> To: 'Charles Monia'; 'Douglas Otis'; ips@ece.cmu.edu
> Subject: RE: iSCSI reqmts and Ethernet adapters
> 
> 
> I'm assuming Charles is implying that he doesn't expect to 
> have the memory
> and memory bandwidth limitations of an adapter?  FCIP and iFCP are
> switch-sized applications, not NIC card-sized?
> 

Yes, that's true. We also don't plan to use a seperate adapter as the Gbe
interface for our box, so we wouldn't even indirectly benefit from the
adapter's being able to do framing.  I'm pretty sure that's true for the
FCIP folks as well.  I assume that's what Doug was getting at.

Charles