Re: iSCSI: Rev 07 Comments

["Jim Hafner" <hafner@almaden.ibm.com>]

Rick,

There is no doubt that limiting to one connection per session would have
made this whole thing a lot simpler.  However, the consensus was declared
to be that the value of multiple connections dominated the extra complexity
involved.    Consequently, the model has to reflect what is reasonable
given the possible implementation choices for such a complex environment.
That led us to where we are with the model....

Jim Hafner


Rick Ellis <rellis@integrix.com>@ece.cmu.edu on 08/15/2001 04:22:23 pm

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>The iSCSI model defines portal groups as collections of network portals
>that can coordinate (at it's end) multiple connections within a session.

Why did that happen?  Wouldn't it have been a lot simpler to not allow
multiple connections within a session?  It has really complicated the
protocol.