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particular fabrics autonomous. Should any event occur within an individual fabric,
such as component failure, fabric reconfiguration, or a registered state change
notification (RSCN) broadcast, such an event will not be propagated into the
other fabrics.
Figure 13-1 mSAN and iSAN interconnections
13.2.2 SAN routing features
This section describes the various features used in McDATA SAN routing.
mFCP and iFCP
mFCP and iFCP interconnect McDATA routers. Even though these protocols are
similar to each other from a high-level perspective, they are used in different
environments and ha