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[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: is TargetName always mandatory or not?Error in my attached Statement. I should have crossed out the TSID, sorry. . . . John L. Hufferd Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM) IBM/SSG San Jose Ca Main Office (408) 256-0403, Tie: 276-0403, eFax: (408) 904-4688 Home Office (408) 997-6136 Internet address: hufferd@us.ibm.com John Hufferd/San Jose/IBM@IBMUS@ece.cmu.edu on 10/31/2001 01:42:19 PM Sent by: owner-ips@ece.cmu.edu To: Andre Asselin/Raleigh/IBM@IBMUS cc: ips@ece.cmu.edu Subject: Re: is TargetName always mandatory or not? Andre, I looked again through the document and No where could I find a statement that you claimed as "a nexus, and therefore an iSCSI session, is uniquely identified by the InitiatorName, ISID, TSID, and portal group tag". It is the InitiatorName, ISID, TSID, with the TargetName and PortalGroup. -------------------------^^^^-- delete TSID from Sentence. Please point out to me in the Spec (8 or above), where I can find your statement on I_T Nexus. I did find the following (please ignore for this conversation the "i" and 't" stuff): "- Session: The group of TCP connections that link an initiator with a target, form a session (loosely equivalent to a SCSI I-T nexus). TCP connections can be added and removed from a session. Across all connections within a session, an initiator sees one "target image". " " - I_T nexus: According to [SAM2], the I_T nexus is a relationship between a SCSI Initiator Port and a SCSI Target Port. For iSCSI, this relationship is a session, defined as a relationship between an iSCSI Initiator's end of the session (SCSI Initiator Port) and the iSCSI Target's Portal Group. The I_T nexus can be identified by the conjunction of the SCSI port names; that is, the I_T nexus identifier is the tuple (iSCSI Initiator Name + 'i'+ ISID, iSCSI Target Name + 't'+ Portal Group Tag). NOTE: The I_T nexus identifier is not equal to the session identifier (SSID). " I have not found a place where Session ID is tied to the TSID. Hence my comment that we also need to have the TargetName in the Initial Login on all Connections. . . . John L. Hufferd Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM) IBM/SSG San Jose Ca Main Office (408) 256-0403, Tie: 276-0403, eFax: (408) 904-4688 Home Office (408) 997-6136 Internet address: hufferd@us.ibm.com Andre Asselin/Raleigh/IBM@IBMUS@ece.cmu.edu on 10/31/2001 10:40:55 AM Sent by: owner-ips@ece.cmu.edu To: ips@ece.cmu.edu cc: John Hufferd/San Jose/IBM@IBMUS Subject: Re: is TargetName always mandatory or not? John & Julian, How about this for the section 5 text: The initial Login request of the first connection of a session (leading login) MUST include the InitiatorName key=value pair. The initial login request of the leading Login MAY also include the SessionType key=value pair, in which case if the SessionType is not "discovery", then the initial login request MUST also include the key=value pair TargetName. John, I disagree with your second statement: I don't see any way you could have 2 different sessions established within the same portal group with the same InitiatorName, ISID, and TSID. The spec. says that a nexus, and therefore an iSCSI session, is uniquely identified by the InitiatorName, ISID, TSID, and portal group tag. There is no mention of TargetName contributing to the identificaiton of a session. In my opinion, a non-leading connection should NOT have the TargetName, since it doesn't contribute anything. Andre Asselin IBM ServeRAID Software Development Research Triangle Park, NC John Hufferd/San To: Julian Satran/Haifa/IBM@IBMIL Jose/IBM@IBMUS cc: ips@ece.cmu.edu Sent by: Subject: Re: is TargetName always mandatory or not? owner-ips@ece. cmu.edu 10/31/2001 04:20 AM Julian, I think the TargetName should be included on the Initial Login Request on the Leading Login. It seem strange to permit the Authentication functions to proceed if perhaps the intended Target is different then the one doing the Authentication. The way it currently is written, you could pass all the Security test and then find out just before going into Full Function Phase, that it was intended for some other Target. Seems like a waste. My I think that TargetName should also be on all connections on the Initial Login Request. Here is my thinking: The SSID (ISID+TSID) is unique only with regards to a Specific Initiator and Target Node Pair. It is therefore not clear that just knowing the SSID and InitiatorName is enough to understand what session the subsequent connections are being attached to. And it is possible that the CID could be also overlapped with another session. Therefore, I think it make since to determine all this on the initial Login on every Connection, so you know at the beginning what values can be negotiated, or that are being set to the right Session. . . . John L. Hufferd Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM) IBM/SSG San Jose Ca Main Office (408) 256-0403, Tie: 276-0403, eFax: (408) 904-4688 Home Office (408) 997-6136 Internet address: hufferd@us.ibm.com Julian Satran/Haifa/IBM@IBMIL@ece.cmu.edu on 10/30/2001 11:33:50 PM Sent by: owner-ips@ece.cmu.edu To: ips@ece.cmu.edu cc: Subject: Re: is TargetName always mandatory or not? It is the leading login: The section 5 paragraph will read: The initial Login request of the first connection of a session (leading login) MUST include the InitiatorName key=value pair. The leading Login request MAY also include the SessionType key=value pair in which case if the SessionType is not "discovery" then the leading Login Request MUST also include the key=value pair TargetName. Julo Andre Asselin/Raleigh/IBM@IBMUS Sent by: owner-ips@ece.cmu.edu 31-10-01 02:08 Please respond to Andre Asselin To: "IPS Reflector (E-mail)" <ips@ece.cmu.edu> cc: Subject: is TargetName always mandatory or not? In section 5 of the spec, it says "If the SessionType is not "discovery" then the initial Login Request MUST also include the key=value pair TargetName.". However, in Appendix D, the description for TargetName says it is Leading Only. Should TargetName not be Leading Only, or should the text in section 5 say that TargetName must be in the initial Login Request of a leading connection? Andre Asselin IBM ServeRAID Software Development Research Triangle Park, NC
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