Brocade Fabric OS FCIP Administrator's Guide v7.1.0 (53-1002748-01, March 2013)

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• Chapter 3
- Removed chapter 3 from previous release, titled “FCIP on the FR4-18i blade.” Chapter 3
now becomes “FCIP Management and Troubleshooting.”
- Removed “portCmd --ipperf” under “WAN performance analysis tools” on page 66 since
this is a tool specific to FR4-18i blade. Also, the command in last bullet in this section was
changed to portShow fcipTunnel --perf.
- Added additional general information about tperf under “The tperf option” on page 66 and
details about establishing a telnet/ssh sessions for the source, sink, to display statistics.
- Removed “The ipperf option,” “ipperf performance statistics,” “Starting an ipperf,” and
“ipperf options” sections since these only apply to the FR4-18i blade.
- Modified “Displaying FCIP tunnel information on FR4-18i blade” for FX8-24 blade and
renamed section to “Displaying FCIP tunnel information (FX8-24 blade)” on page 72.
Modified information on using the portShow fciptunnel command.
- Under “FCIP tunnel issues” on page 73, modified step on using portShow fciptunnel
command to remove FR-14i blade options.
- Under “Displaying FCIP tunnel TCP statistics” on page 71, explained --reset and --lifetime
options for portshow fciptunnel slot/ve_port -tcp command.
- Added “Displaying TCP statistics for circuits” on page 72“and explained --reset and
--lifetime options for portshow fcipcircuit slot/ve_port -tcp command
Document conventions
This section describes text formatting conventions and important notice formats used in this
document.
Text formatting
The narrative-text formatting conventions that are used are as follows:
bold text Identifies command names
Identifies the names of user-manipulated GUI elements
Identifies keywords and operands
Identifies text to enter at the GUI or CLI
italic text Provides emphasis
Identifies variables
Identifies paths and Internet addresses
Identifies document titles
code text Identifies CLI output
Identifies command syntax examples
For readability, command names in the narrative portions of this guide are presented in mixed
lettercase: for example, switchShow. In actual examples, command lettercase is often all
lowercase. Otherwise, this manual specifically notes those cases in which a command is
case-sensitive.