Re: iSCSI minimum PDU length

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

no - the minimum mentioned includes only the data segment.  Julo




Santosh Rao <santoshr@cup.hp.com>
Sent by: santoshr@cup.hp.com
24-10-01 22:52
Please respond to Santosh Rao

 
        To:     "Martin, Nick" <Nick.Martin@compaq.com>
        cc:     Julian Satran/Haifa/IBM@IBMIL, ips@ece.cmu.edu
        Subject:        Re: iSCSI minimum PDU length

 



Does the MaxRecvPDULength include the AHS length ? 

- Santosh

"Martin, Nick" wrote:
> 
> Julian,
> 
> This is for the data after the PDU header right?
> This will be the guaranteed lowest value anyone will be forced to deal
> with.
> Implementations may negotiate for any value greater than or equal to
> this value.
> 
> This is acceptable and it is a good choice because it is the largest
> power of 2 that will fit within minimum Ethernet MTU of ~1500 and leaves
> plenty of room for iSCSI and LLP headers.
> 
> Thanks,
> Nick
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Julian Satran [mailto:Julian_Satran@il.ibm.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 12:35 PM
> To: ips@ece.cmu.edu
> Subject: iSCSI minimum PDU length
> 
> With no votes against we have settled (again) on single PDU length (per
> connection, per direction) for all types of PDUs.
> But I think we erred on the low side by suggesting 64 as a minimum. It
> is
> low (it was mentioned) and bad for text request/response.
> 
> How about settling for 1024?
> 
> Julo

-- 
##################################
Santosh Rao
Software Design Engineer,
HP-UX iSCSI Driver Team,
Hewlett Packard, Cupertino.
email : santoshr@cup.hp.com
Phone : 408-447-3751
##################################