{"draft":"draft-ietf-dhc-isnsoption-13","doc_id":"RFC4174","title":"The IPv4 Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) Option for the Internet Storage Name Service","authors":["C. Monia","J. Tseng","K. Gibbons"],"format":["ASCII","HTML"],"page_count":"13","pub_status":"PROPOSED STANDARD","status":"PROPOSED STANDARD","source":"Dynamic Host Configuration","abstract":"This document describes the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol\r\n(DHCP) option to allow Internet Storage Name Service (iSNS) clients\r\nto discover the location of the iSNS server automatically through the\r\nuse of DHCP for IPv4.  iSNS provides discovery and management\r\ncapabilities for Internet SCSI (iSCSI) and Internet Fibre Channel\r\nProtocol (iFCP) storage devices in an enterprise-scale IP storage\r\nnetwork.  iSNS provides intelligent storage management services\r\ncomparable to those found in Fibre Channel networks, allowing a\r\ncommodity IP network to function in a similar capacity to that of a\r\nstorage area network.  [STANDARDS-TRACK]","pub_date":"August 2005","keywords":["isns","internet storage name service","iscsi","internet scsi","ifcp","internet fibre channel","storage devices"],"obsoletes":[],"obsoleted_by":[],"updates":[],"updated_by":["RFC7146"],"see_also":[],"doi":"10.17487\/RFC4174","errata_url":null}