
336 SAN Multiprotocol Routing: An Introduction and Implementation
communication (including domain management, zones, and VSANs). At the
Fibre Channel layer, all VE and E_Port operations are identical.
The FCIP profile contains information about local IP address and TCP
parameters. The profile defines the following information:
The local connection points (IP address and TCP port number)
The behavior of the underlying TCP connections for all FCIP links that use
this profile
The FCIP profile’s local IP address determines the Gigabit Ethernet port where
the FCIP links terminate.
The FCIP interface is the local endpoint of the FCIP link and a VE_P ...