Users Guide

The following illustration shows a switch used as a FIP snooping bridge in a converged Ethernet network.
The top-of-rack (ToR) switch operates as an FCF for FCoE traffic. Converged LAN and SAN traffic is
transmitted between the ToR switch and an core switch. The switch operates as a lossless FIP snooping
bridge to transparently forward FCoE frames between the ENode servers and the FCF switch.
Figure 38. FIP Snooping on an Core Switch
The following sections describe how to configure the FIP snooping feature on a switch that functions as
a FIP snooping bridge so that it can perform the following functions:
• Allocate CAM resources for FCoE.
• Perform FIP snooping (allowing and parsing FIP frames) globally on all VLANs or on a per-VLAN basis.
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