Re: iscsi : originating & responding parties in login.

[Paul Koning <pkoning@jlc.net>]

Excerpt of message (sent 4 October 2001) by Santosh Rao:
> Julian,
> 
> I don't understand why that requirement exists. An initiator should be
> considered as the originator if he sends a login key implicitly thru the
> use of defaults. This ensures that the login process ends at the
> initiator and avoids redundant login handshakes.
> 
> Could you please explain further as to why you need to differentiate b/n
> an initiator that sent keys explicitly and one that used defaults ? 

I second that.

The default should simply be an alternate way of encoding the value.
It only adds useless complexity if the state machine reacts
differently for default vs. the same value explicitly coded.

	    paul