RE: Minimum PDU Size & CRC.

["Venkat Ramakrishnan" <venkatr@promise.com>]

Preetam,

What you are seeing may not be a iSCSI payload. It could be because your
TCP stack advertised a Window size of zero and the Initiator's TCP stack
is sending Window Probes with 1-byte Payload. Since, the Dst TCP port is
3260, your packet sniffer could be interpreting this as iSCSI Payload.
Most probably, the TCP acks from your TCP stack will have a Window size
of Zero for all this Window Probes.

Hope this helps!

-Venkat

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ips@ece.cmu.edu [mailto:owner-ips@ece.cmu.edu] On Behalf Of
Preetam Verma
Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 12:01 PM
To: ips@ece.cmu.edu
Subject: Minimum PDU Size & CRC.

Eddy/Julo

I'm trying to reassemble ISCSI PDUs from data from a TCP offload engine.
During congestion, an initiator may send 1 byte in the TCP payload. I
wish
to know whether an initiator can send unpadded 1 byte in a TCP payload.
When
it comes to data intensive applications, people generally check/generate
CRC. I am not sure whether it's the application that needs to check
whether
the data received had proper CRC. I am talking from a hardware
perspective.

I'd greatly appreciate your help.

Regards

Preetam