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Fibre Channel Over IP (FCIP)
draft-ietf-ipfc-fcoverip-02

Document Type Expired Internet-Draft (ipfc WG)
Expired & archived
Authors Murali Rajagopal , Wayne Rickard , Elizabeth G. Rodriguez , Raj Bhagwat , Monica Krueger
Last updated 2000-07-19
RFC stream Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
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Abstract

Fibre Channel(FC) is a dominant technology used in Storage Area Networks(SAN). The purpose of this draft is to specify a standard way of encapsulating FC frames over IP and to describe mechanisms that allow islands of FC SANs to be interconnected over IP-based networks running over very reliable data links. FC over IP relies on IP-based network services to provide the connectivity between the SAN islands over LANs, MANs, or WANs. While the FC over IP specification is independent of the link level transport protocol, it assumes a high bandwidth, high reliability, low loss link level transport such as Gigabit Ethernet, SONET, ATM, or DWDM. This specification treats all classes of FC frames the same -- as datagrams.

Authors

Murali Rajagopal
Wayne Rickard
Elizabeth G. Rodriguez
Raj Bhagwat
Monica Krueger

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