Re: iSCSI: Wrapping up SendTargets

[Mark Bakke <mbakke@cisco.com>]

Glen-

I think that this is at least partially the sort of
thing Marjorie had in mind.  I strongly agree, and
given Jim's comments (in a later email; I've been away),
there's no way for someone "outside" to really know
whether an implementation is returning targets for one
or more "boxes" anyway.

--
Mark

Glen Turner wrote:
> 
> Mark Bakke wrote:
> >
> > I don't see any reason to disallow what Marjorie is asking
> > for...
> > Any thoughts?
> 
> There's the question of seperation of control and data.
> My reading is that the spec to date assumes that these
> will be in the same host.
> 
> Given the increasing complexity of the control services,
> I'm not sure that a disk CPU can economically meet
> the control requirements (I'm not a disk CPU expert).
> 
> So the argument for SendTargets describing other
> targets it to allow a host that handles only control
> services (such as a daemon on a general-purpose CPU).
> 
> Allowing a seperation also simplifies the firewalling
> task.
> 
> I need to go and have a close read of the spec from
> this perspective so please regard the above as a
> very tentative remark, made very late in the day,
> whilst reaching for the asbestos underwear :-)
> 
> Regards,
> Glen
> 
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>  Glen Turner                                 Network Engineer
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Mark A. Bakke
Cisco Systems
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