RE: Target Behavior Clarifications

Julian Satran <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.ips
Message-ID <OF166B3FA9.097E64F0-ONC2257154.001DD46E-C2257154.0021F976@il.ibm.com>
As far as I remember this was done to keep in line with FCP behavior (FCP 
has no immediate data but can operate with unsolicited data).

Julo

<[email protected]> wrote on 18/04/2006 02:07:01:

> Sanjay,
>   Thanks.
> 
>  There seems to be an inconsistency in the spec in terms of how the 
> target is expected to behave when it detects initiator behavior that
> is not in line with the negotiated operational parameters. As per 
> the spec if the target receives any non-immediate unsolicited data 
> when InitialR2T=Yes, it shall fail the command with a CHECK 
> CONDITION (0B/0C/0C ? COMMAND ABORTED, WRITE ERROR - UNEXPECTED 
> UNSOLICITED DATA) ? Why is this a special case?
> 
> Thanks,
> Jacob
> 
> 
> From: Sanjay Goyal [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Monday, April 17, 2006 5:53 PM
> To: Cherian, Jacob; [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [Ips] Target Behavior Clarifications
> 
> Hi,
> 
> What it indicates is that the other side is misbehaving. It should 
> be treated as protocol error and the session should be terminated.
> 
> -Sanjay
> 
> 
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Monday, April 17, 2006 2:49 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [Ips] Target Behavior Clarifications
> A couple of quick questions?
> 1) What should the behavior of a target be if it receives a PDU on a
> connection, larger than what it declared with MaxRecvDataSegmentLength:
> - If the PDU is part of a SCSI command? 
> - If the PDU is part of a login?
> 2) What should the target behaviour be if the initiator sends it 
> more data than MaxBurstLength?
> 3) What should the target behavior be if the initiator sends more data 
than 
> FirstBurstLength?
> Any clarification would be greatly appreciated. 
> Thanks,
> Jacob
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