RE: Regarding CSG and NSG

[Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@wasabisystems.com>]

On Sat, 27 Jul 2002, Rao, Sajjan wrote:

> Bill,
>      If the Initiator says no authentication, then the target has to decide
> whether it wants to authenticate or not. So if the target wants to forego
> security, it has to send the CSG = CSG sent by initiator and NSG = NSG sent
> by the initiator and set T = 1.
> Am I right??

Assuming that the initiator set T=1, yes, that is my understanding.

Well, that's not what I would call, "Initiator says no authentication".
This situation is more the initiator saying I'm happy not authenticating.
"No authentication" would be CSG=1 on the initial request; we skipped
right past the security phase. :-)

> The initiator would then move send one more login request with probably some
> more parameters and move into Full feature phase.

Yep.

Take care,

Bill