RE: iSCSI: Discovery Sessions

["KRUEGER,MARJORIE (HP-Roseville,ex1)" <marjorie_krueger@hp.com>]

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> Julian had suggested that we simply provide a text key at
> login that says
> 
>    DiscoverySession=yes
> 
> to indicate that the session was to be used for SendTargets;
> no TargetName would need to be specified at all for the session.
> 
> Since this was analogous to other "special" sessions, such as
> boot and copy manager sessions, we further combined these
> separate booleans into a SessionType.
> 
> This means that rather than specifying the target "iscsi" in
> the login request, the initiator would instead specify:
> 
>    SessionType=Discovery

So which is it, "DiscoverySession" or "SessionType"?  If both, why do we
need both?

On another note, Appendix D should *clearly* indicate which of these keys
are mandatory to implement (which means offer and answer).

Marjorie Krueger
Networked Storage Architecture
Networked Storage Solutions Org.
Hewlett-Packard