Reference Guide

Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide ix
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About This Document
In this chapter
•How this document is organized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
•Supported hardware and software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
•What’s new in this document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . x
•Document conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
•Notice to the reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xii
•Additional information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii
•Getting technical help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii
•Document feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiv
How this document is organized
. This document is organized to help you find the information that you want as quickly and easily as
possible. It contains the following components:
• Chapter 1, “FCIP Overview” describes FCIP concepts and features.
• Chapter 2, “FCIP on the 7800 Switch and FX8-24 Blade” describes FCIP tunnel and trunking
configuration options for the 7800 switch and FX8-24 blade.
• Chapter 3, “FCIP on the FR4-18i Blade” describes FCIP tunnel configuration options for the
FR4-18i blade.
• Chapter 4, “FCIP Management and Troubleshooting” describes FCIP management and
troubleshooting operations.
Supported hardware and software
The following hardware platforms support FCIP as described in this manual:
• Brocade DCX, DCX 8510-8, DCX-4S, and DCX 8510-4 with one or more FX8-24 blades
• Brocade 7800 switch
• Brocade DCX and DCX-4S with one or more FR4-18i blades
NOTE
FR4-18i blades are not supported on the16 Gbps DCX 8510-8 and DCX 8510-4 models.