Fip Snooping On Ethernet Bridges - Dell C9000 Series Networking Configuration Manual

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FIP Function

Figure 37. FIP Discovery and Login Between an ENode and an FCF

FIP Snooping on Ethernet Bridges

In a converged Ethernet network, intermediate Ethernet bridges can snoop on FIP packets during the login

process on an FCF. Then, using ACLs, a transit bridge can permit only authorized FCoE traffic to be

transmitted between an FCoE end-device and an FCF. An Ethernet bridge that provides these functions is

called a FIP snooping bridge (FSB).

On a FIP snooping bridge, ACLs are created dynamically as FIP login frames are processed. The ACLs are

installed on switch ports configured for ENode mode for server-facing ports and FCF mode for a trusted port

directly connected to an FCF.

Enable FIP snooping on the switch, configure the FIP snooping parameters, and configure CAM allocation for

FCoE. When you enable FIP snooping, all ports on the switch by default become ENode ports.

On receiving a FLOGO packet, FSB deletes all

existing sessions from the ENode to the FCF.

FCoE Transit