Re: Question

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

Shesha,

SCSI is not a "reliable protocol".  It assumes a reliable delivery 
subsystem. That is what iSCSI does (as well as FCP, SPI, SBP etc.).

This is why only two transports where considered (TCP and SCTP) and TCP 
was selected to start with due to its maturity.

Julo




"shesha bhushan" <bhushan_vadulas@hotmail.com>
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24-10-01 20:38
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Hi,
  I am doing a research project at Arizona State University on SCSI and 
iSCSI. I was going through both the protocols. I have a crazy question. 
iSCSI = SCSI/(TCP/IP). But SCSI is a reliable protocol so is TCP. so can't 

we just try to send SCSI packets on IP or SCSI/UDP. Any & All comments are 

welcome.

Thanks
Shesha Bhushan S
Research Assistant
Arizona State University


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