Re: FCIP - Proposed changes in support of common FC encapsulation

[Ralph Weber <ralphoweber@compuserve.com>]

Sudhir,

Do you think it would be better to delete the "discarding frames
with header errors" part entirely or to reword it to be more of
a reference to 8.1?

Thanks.

Ralph...

Sudhir Srinivasan wrote:

>
> Only one comment on this. You suggest the following text:
>
> "The FCIP receiving
> device MUST reverse the FC frame encapsulation process, verify the
> correctness of the header discarding frames with header errors, and
> deliver the FC frames to the correct FC ports connected to the FCIP
> device."
>
> The part about "discarding frames with header errors" is
> confusing because FCIP header errors will result in loss of
> synchronization and Section 8.1 will then define the action
> to be taken.
>
> - Sudhir
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ralph Weber [mailto:ralphoweber@compuserve.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 5:51 PM
> To: IPS Reflector
> Subject: FCIP - Proposed changes in support of common FC encapsulation
>
> In the 3rd paragraph of section 4.3, replace:
>
>       Each FCIP data frame is built by adding an FCIP header to one FC
>       frame delivered to the FCIP endpoint for transport. The FCIP data
>       frames are handed in their entirety to TCP; TCP is responsible for
>       delivering the same series of FCIP data frames to the receiving
>       side in the same order as they are transmitted by the sending FCIP
>       device.  The FCIP device MUST find the FCIP headers and deliver
>       the FC frames wrapped inside the FCIP data frames to the correct
>       FC ports connected to the FCIP device.
>
> with:
>
>       An FCIP data frame is built by encapsulating one FC frame delivered
>       to the FCIP endpoint for transport using the encapsulation format
>       described in the common FC Frame Encapsulation [23] and in section
>       5.2 of this document.  The FCIP data frames are handed in their
>       entirety to TCP; TCP is responsible for delivering the same series
>       of FCIP data frames to the receiving side in the same order as
>       they are transmitted by the sending FCIP device.  The FCIP receiving
>       device MUST reverse the FC frame encapsulation process, verify the
>       correctness of the header discarding frames with header errors, and
>       deliver the FC frames to the correct FC ports connected to the FCIP
>       device.