Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 08 Jan 2003 01:04:51 +0100 | From | Roman Zippel <> | Subject | Re: Linux iSCSI Initiator, OpenSource (fwd) (Re: Gauntlet Set NOW!) |
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Hi,
Andre Hedrick wrote:
> > > Please continue to think of TCP checksums as valid for a data transport, > > > you data will be gone soon enough. > > > > > > Initiator == Controller > > > Target == Disk > > > iSCSI == cable or ribbon > > > > > > Please turn off the CRC on your disk drive and see if you still have data. > > > > This maybe works as PR, but otherwise it's crap. > > So, please turn off the CRC's in your onboard storage today and see how > long it lasts.
If you want to compare apples with apples, you should rather tell me how I turn off the checksumming of my nic.
> > With a network protocol you have multiple possibilities to increase the > > reliability. The lower you do it in the network layer the easier is it > > to put it into hardware and to optimize it and the more generically it's > > usable. Doing it in the protocol is only the last resort. The iSCSI > > protocol is a nice protocol - if you ignore all the crap the hardware > > vendors put in (that stuff only makes sense if you want to produce ultra > > cheap hardware). > > I will be happy to see everyone turn off the CRC's on the data and headers > on their products or the open sources ones which fail to follow the rules. > I am well away of everyones contempt for standards.
You know RFC2119?
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