Re: iSCSI: negotiated more than once

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

owner-ips@ece.cmu.edu wrote on 20-12-2001 20:13:05:

> Section 5 says:
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>  Both initiator and target MUST NOT attempt to negotiate a parameter
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>  more than once during any login stage. Attempting to do so MUST
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>  result in the login (and connection) being terminated.
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> But section 6 says:
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>  Both initiator and target MUST NOT attempt to negotiate a parameter
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>  more than once during any negotiation sequence without an intervening
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>  reset. If detected by the target this MUST result in a Reject with a
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>  reason of "protocol error".  The initiator MUST reset the negotiation
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>  as outlined above.
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> A reject could mean to terminate the connection but a "reset"
> doesn't. So, are these statements consistent? Notice that section 6
> says "sequence" but section 5 says "login stage". Is that the difference?
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Negotiating a parameter twice in login is terminating the login and the
connection.
In a text exchange it resets the exchange.
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> Eddy

Julo