User`s guide

Conguring IPFC SAN Devices

Conguring Internet Protocol over Fibre Channel (IPFC) on the host system describes host

recognition of IPFC devices and implementation of IP over FC in a SAN. The IPFC driver is

based on RFC 2625 and allows IP trac to run over FC.

This chapter contains the following topics:

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“IPFC Considerations” on page 59

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“Invoking and Conguring IPFC” on page 62

IPFC Considerations

The following table shows the supported features available for IPFC.

TABLE 7–1 IPFC (NFS/NAS and SNDR)

Feature Supported

Cascading Yes, with fabric zones only

Zone type Fabric zone with the HBA congured as an F-port point-to-point connection

Maximum number of

device ports per zone

253

The following restrictions apply:

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IPFC is not supported on 1 Gbit Sun switches.

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Promiscuous mode is not supported. The snoop(1M) utility cannot be used.

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Multicasting is supported through broadcasting only.

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Network cards using IPFC cannot be used as routers. The /etc/notrouter le must be

present on the host.

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