Venky,
I was looking through some old e-mail and found your message.  It didn't seem as though anyone had replied, so I thought I'd take a stab at it.
At 09:13 AM 4/14/00 -0700, Venkatesh V wrote:
>Hello 
>
>I was looking through PPDT draft and i have been having some
>doubts/clarifications. 
>
>One of them being,  
>if PPDT was implemented in a node which had both SBP target and SBP
>initiator capabilities(targiator), how will it know for a particular
>connect request received from client above, it should route that
>request through initiator OR target? Please refer fig below for
>clarity. 
>  
>                       -------------
>                       |  Client   |
>                       -------------
>                            |
>                            |
>                            V
>                       --------------
>                       | PPDT S/W   |
>                       --------------
>                            / \
>                           /   \
>                          V     V
>                    ----------  ----------
>                    |SBP Init | | SBP tgt |
>                    ----------- -----------
The PPDT S/W would decide based on the availability of initiator or target functionality on the destination device.  If the destination was a target, the PPDT S/W would login using the local SBP-2 initiator.  If the destination was an initiator, the PPDT S/W would use reverse login and the local SBP-2 target.  If the destination had both target and initiator, the PPDT S/W could use either the local SBP-2 initiator or the local SBP-2 target.
Brian
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Brian Batchelder - Hewlett-Packard
IEEE 1212r Chair, IEEE 1394.3 (PPDT), IEEE 1284.4 Editor
https://ecardfile.com/id/brian_batchelder
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