Re: iscsi : OpParmreset

["Julian Satran" <Julian_Satran@il.ibm.com>]

Santosh,

The main purpose of this key was to explicitly cancel the effects of a
running negotiation and restart anew.
As the draft stands now there is no much difference between the two - but
on basic principles the purposes are different (as you well stated).  We
may change the value to be:

OpParmReset=<default|current>

to accommodate both semantics.

Julo


                                                                                        
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All,

Please refer the definition of OpParmReset login key.

" 30 OpParmReset

OpParmReset enables an Initiator or Target to request the operational
parameters to be reset to the values they had before the negotiation."

I suggest that the definition be re-worded to state that the OpParmReset
enables an initiator or target to reset the operational parameters to
their DEFAULT VALUES. [instead of the current definition that states
that the parameters are reset to the values they had prior to the
current negotiation.]

The current definition requires the initiator to maintain 2 sets of
operational parameter values, the current and the previous. In the case
where initiator is just booting up, if the target sets OpParmReset to
"yes", the initiator does not know what to set the op params to, since
it has lost its prior state information.

Comments ?

Thanks,
Santosh

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