RE: iSCSI-Asynch event code

[pat_thaler@agilent.com]

Paul and Santosh,

If this isn't needed, then I don't see why FFP negotiation is needed at all (other than to support discovery with SendTargets but that isn't really a negotiation). The initiator could also close and reopen the connection to change PDU size. If we support renegotiation of some keys during FFP for the initiator, then we should do it for the target as well. Otherwise we shouldn't support renegotiation at all.

Pat

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Koning [mailto:ni1d@arrl.net]
Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 1:54 PM
To: santoshr@cup.hp.com
Cc: Julian_Satran@il.ibm.com; ips@ece.cmu.edu
Subject: Re: iSCSI-Asynch event code


Excerpt of message (sent 12 June 2002) by Santosh Rao:
> 
> Why is this needed ? The target can just send an async event to drop the
> connection or request a connection logout, and the connection can be
> re-established allowing for new negotiation.
> 
> I don't see the point of making this change so late in the game. There
> exist mechanisms such as target driven connection logout/drop which can
> be used to achieve the same effect.

I agree.

    paul