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From: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/11] iscsi_transport: Added Ping support
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:33:41 -0600
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To: Or Gerlitz <or.gerlitz@gmail.com>
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On 02/21/2012 03:55 PM, Or Gerlitz wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 3:00 PM, <vikas.chaudhary@qlogic.com> wrote:
>> Added ping support for iscsi adapter, application can use this
>> interface for diagnostic network connection.
> 
> Could you elaborate a little further on the motivation here? what's
> the difference between the pings you're suggesting to the initiator
> initiated iscsi NOPs which are fully supported by the current
> initiator stack?

This is network based. ICMP pings. The stuff we have today is iscsi
based pings.

So you can do some basic network diag type of stuff.