Re: iSCSI Discovery and SendTargets

[Stephen Bailey <steph@cs.uchicago.edu>]

Mark,

> Any comments?

I'm exhausted after reading your message.

>    The only thing missing is the ability to configure the
>    initiator with the address of the target, and have it
>    do the unicast request over TCP without a directory agent.
>    This is the gap that SendTargets currently fills.

Once upon a time, I had imagined that iSCSI targets would implement a
`minimal' SLP directory agent for the purposes of doing this unicast
discovery.  However, a cursory scan of the SLP RFC suggests that this
might be running roughshod over the protocol, and more importantly, a
minimal SLP directory agent looks pretty bulky.  Sigh, rats.  Oh well.

Nonetheless, I still think that tweaking SLP to do the job would be an
OK idea, and perhaps the right architectural approach, if the SLP guys
are sold on standardizing it.

Steph