Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switch Fabric Manager Software Configuration Guide, NX-OS 4.0 (OL-16598-01, June 2008)

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Nexus 5000 Series Switch Fabric Manager Software Configuration Guide
OL-16598-01
Chapter 18 Configuring Fibre Channel Routing Services and Protocols
In-Order Delivery
Figure 18-9 Fibre Channel Static Route Configuration Dialog Box
Step 2
Click Create to create a static route.
You see the Create Route dialog box as shown in Figure 18-10.
Figure 18-10 Create Fibre Channel Route Dialog Box
Step 3
Choose the VSAN ID that for which you are configuring this route.
Step 4 Fill in the destination address and destination mask for the device you are configuring a route.
Step 5 Choose the interface that you want to use to reach this destination.
Step 6 Choose the next hop domain ID and route metric.
Step 7 Check either the local or remote radio button.
Step 8 Click Create to save these changes, or click Close to discard any unsaved changes.
In-Order Delivery
In-order delivery (IOD) of data frames guarantees frame delivery to a destination in the same order that
they were sent by the originator.
Some Fibre Channel protocols or applications cannot handle out-of-order frame delivery. In these cases,
switches in the Nexus 5000 Series preserve frame ordering in the frame flow. The source ID (SID),
destination ID (DID), and optionally the originator exchange ID (OX ID) identify the flow of the frame.
On a switch with IOD enabled, all frames received by a specific ingress port and destined to a certain
egress port are always delivered in the same order in which they were received.