November 2001
Intermediate to advanced
320 pages
7h 58m
English
FCIP is a means of encapsulating Fibre Channel frames within TCP/IP specifically for linking Fibre Channel SANs over wide areas. Among the IP storage protocols under development in the IPS Work Group, FCIP therefore has the least IP content. Instead of a native IP connection between individual storage devices, FCIP provides IP connections between Fibre Channel SAN islands. As shown in Figure 8-1, IP addresses and TCP connections are used only at the FCIP tunneling devices at each end point of the IP network cloud.

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