On Mar 7, 4:19 am, Mike Christie <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 03/05/2012 10:31 PM, [email protected] wrote:
>
> > Hi,
>
> >    The RFC4171 says that iSNS unicast messages SHOULD NOT include the
> > authentication block but rather should rely on IPsec security
> > mechanisms.
>
> > Why the open iSNS code sends authentication block (with Security
> > enabled) along with all unicast messages like registration, query
> > etc ?
>
> I do not know why the original author decided to do that. The rfc does
> not say MUST NOT, so maybe the original author decided they preferred to
> do it for some reason. There does not seem to be any clues in the code
> or commit logs.
>
> Is this causing a issue/bug with some other servers/clients?

Problem is that if I enable security at the server, then all targets/
initiators should also send authentication block in every PDU. The
targets/initiators that I am using do not support authentication, so
they fail to communicate with open iSNS server.

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