Fw: Re: iSCSI: negotiated more than once

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

Eddy,

Here is the answer. Julo
----- Forwarded by Julian Satran/Haifa/IBM on 22-12-01 18:49 -----

Julian Satran 22-12-01 09:26

To:        "Eddy Quicksall" <Eddy_Quicksall@ivivity.com>         cc:        "ips@ece. cmu. edu \(E-mail\)" <ips@ece.cmu.edu>, owner-ips@ece.cmu.edu         Subject:        Re: iSCSI: negotiated more than onceLink

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

> Section 5 says:
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>  
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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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>  
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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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>  
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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?
> 
> 

Negotiating a parameter twice in login is terminating the login and the connection.
In a text exchange it resets the exchange. 
> 
> Eddy

Julo