Re: iSNS transaction ID uniqueness

Victor Li <[email protected]> Thu, 19 Jul 2007 20:56:04 +0800
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.ips
Message-ID <[email protected]>
follow up with previous message:

For your case, I think either way will be correct, as long as the 
TRANSACTION ID is guaranteed to be unique for each concurrently 
outstanding request message by your iSNS client.

Paul Hughes wrote:
>
> Section 5.1.5 of RFC 4171 (iSNS) states:  The TRANSACTION ID MUST be 
> set to a unique value for each concurrently outstanding request message.
>
> For an iSCSI target registering with or querying an iSNS server, does 
> the Transaction ID have to be unique for every message sent by any 
> portal of the target (any message from the network entity) or does the 
> Transaction ID only need to be unique for messages sent by a specific 
> portal?
>
> I'm mostly just curious what the intent is.  I can easily create 
> entity-unique transaction IDs for cases where more than one target 
> portal could be sending concurrent request messages to the server.
>
> Thanks,
> Paul
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