Subject: Re: [Fwd: iscsi : question on async message behaviour.]

From: "Julian Satran" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 11:32:57 +0300

Santosh,

I will add this although your request is on the "nitpicking" side as the
draft states clearly and in several places that close the session is an
acceptable action. However this has nothing to do with recovery since
supporting individual connection login and logout is mandatory if you
support multiple connections.

The wording will be:

Initiator MUST send a Logout with a reason code of "Close the connection"
to cleanly shutdown the connection. The initiator MAY also issue a Logout
with the reason code of "Close the session", to completely close the
session, but ONLY if it does not support or use multiple connections in the
specific session.

Julo

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Julian,

One more issue that got dropped by the wayside. I'd appreciate if you
could please incorporate the below change so that initiators that use
session recovery are not considered non-conformant to the standard.

Thanks,
Santosh

Santosh Rao wrote:
>
> Julian,
>
> Consider the below definition for handling of the "target requests
> logout" async message :
>
> " 1    Target requests Logout. This Async Message MUST be sent on the
> same connection as the one be requested to be logged out.  Initiator
> MUST honor this request by issuing a Logout as early as possible, but no
> later than Parameter3 seconds. Initiator MUST send a Logout with a
> reason code of "Close the connection" to cleanly shutdown the
> connection."
>
> It specifies that initiators MUST use the "close the connection logout".
> However, note that initiators are also allowed to use a "close the
> session" logout when they only implement session recovery.
>
> Hope you will be able to re-word the above definition with session
> recovery factored in.
>
> Thanks,
> Santosh

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