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[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: FMarker, RFMarkInt and SFMarkInt negotiationWhat would the IT and TI add? The information is already available in the PDU (IT and IT PDUS are different). Julo
Dear list members, I seem to be having problems (or at least mild surprises) reading A.3.1 to A.3.3 of draft 10. Would you mind answering a few questions and hearing out some beginner's ideas? Many thanks in advance. Is it true that RFMarkInt when used by initiator means the intervals for the T->I direction, while this same key used by target refers to the I->T direction? Similarly (well, dually) for SFMarkInt? That is, if initiator starts the negotiation and sends FMarker=receive; RFMarkInt=17,51 the target should answer with something like FMarker=send; SFMarkInt=34 (the numbers used are just examples). I'm not sure that RFMarker is properly negotiated if the answer for it comes with the key "SFMarker"... The fact that FMarker=receive by originator is the same as FMarker=send by responder isn't pretty either, but at least the given example leaves no doubt. Or does it? What if send/receive is always with respect to the target? It would contradict the general principle that most everything in iSCSI is named with respect to initiator, but no example eliminates this possibility... May I suggest that we use something like ITFMarkInt and TIFMarkInt to unambiguously show which direction is being talked about? I would also love to tinker with FMarker values a bit, ideally get rid of it (thus getting rid of a clear parameter dependency), and use ITFMarkInt=0 and TIFMarker=0 to denote that markers are not in use in the respective direction. Any comments will be greatly appreciated. Martins Krikis P.S. I am not really a fan of features that are useless for software implementations and that break protocol layering, but would like to at least understand how they are to be negotiated... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games http://sports.yahoo.com
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