Re: Framing Formats

["Matt Wakeley" <matt_wakeley@agilent.com>]

Rod Harrison wrote:
> 
> Mike,
> 
>         We have (1) now.

No we don't.  iSCSI PDUs are variable in length.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Parkhurst [mailto:mike@integrix.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 11:07 PM
> To: ips@ece.cmu.edu
> Cc: 'Rod Harrison'
> Subject: RE: Framing Formats
> 
> If the iSCSI protocol is going to take on the responsibility
> of insuring
> a reliable data stream then there are only two alternatives.
> 
>         1) Fixed length commands with padding.

[ I'm assuming Mike really meant fixed length PDUs - what is a fixed length
command? ]

-Matt