RE: iSCSI CRC: A CRC-checking example

["Joe Gervais" <joeg@alacritech.com>]

Bob,

If the data was going on token ring or some other media, sure, who cares
about an Ethernet approach, but the data is generally being sent and
received over Ethernet, and there is advantage at least in some
implementations to be in Ethernet bit/byte order.

Additionally, as David said earlier today, if it isn't broke, let's not fix
it. Can we get consensus and move on?

Joe
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ips@ece.cmu.edu [mailto:owner-ips@ece.cmu.edu]On Behalf Of
Robert Snively

... snip ...
So I would have expected that we would avoid any choice that
makes that less convenient.  The Ethernet approach to those
bytes would strike me as being the second-least convenient
approach.  Clearly, throwing hardware at this could correct
for that inconvenience, but it seems to me that any
optimizations we make should focus on what we want to do, not
what Ethernet did.

Bob