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53-1001766-01 30 March 2010 ® Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide Supporting Fabric OS v6.4.0 ...

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Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide iii 53-1001766-01 Document History Title Publication number Summary of changes Date Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 53-1001349-01 New document. July 2009 Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 53-1001349-...

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iv Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 53-1001766-01 ...

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Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide v 53-1001766-01 Contents Chapter 1 FCIP overview In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 FCIP platforms and supported features . . . . . . . . ....

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vi Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 53-1001766-01 Open Systems Tape Pipelining . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23 FCIP Fastwrite and OSTP configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Support for IPv6 Address...

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Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide vii 53-1001766-01 IPSec implementation over FCIP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45 IPsec configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 IPsec para...

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viii Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 53-1001766-01 Portshow command usage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Displaying IP interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Displayin...

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Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide ix 53-1001766-01 About This Document In this chapter •How this document is organized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix •Supported hardware and software. . . . . . . ....

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x Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 53-1001766-01 What’s new in this document This manual applies to FCIP support in Fabric OS version 6.4.0 and later releases. New features include support for IPSec, support for VLAN and DSCP tagging, and su...

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Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide xi 53-1001766-01 Command syntax conventions Command syntax in this manual follows these conventions: Notes, cautions, and warnings The following notices and statements are used in this manual. They are listed be...

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xii Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 53-1001766-01 For definitions of SAN-specific terms, visit the Storage Networking Industry Association online dictionary at: http://www.snia.org/education/dictionary Notice to the reader This document may ...

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Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide xiii 53-1001766-01 Getting technical help Contact your switch support supplier for hardware, firmware, and software support, including product repairs and part ordering. To expedite your call, have the followin...

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xiv Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 53-1001766-01 Document feedback Quality is our first concern at Brocade and we have made every effort to ensure the accuracy and completeness of this document. However, if you find an error or an omission, ...

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Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 1 53-1001766-01 Chapter 1FCIP overview In this chapter •FCIP platforms and supported features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 •FCIP concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

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2 Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 53-1001766-01 FCIP platforms and supported features 1 *Not supported in Fabric OS version 6.4.0, but will be supported in a later version. ** IPv6 addressing is not supported in conjunction with IPsec in Fabri...

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Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 3 53-1001766-01 FCIP concepts 1 FCIP concepts Fibre Channel over IP (FCIP) enables you to use existing IP wide area network (WAN) infrastructure to connect Fibre Channel SANs. FCIP supports applications such as...

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4 Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 53-1001766-01 IP WAN network considerations 1 ...

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Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 5 53-1001766-01 Chapter 2FCIP on the 7800 Switch and FX8-24 Blade In this chapter •7800 switch hardware overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 •7800 switch license...

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6 Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 53-1001766-01 7800 switch hardware overview 2 7800 switch hardware overview Figure 2 shows the FC ports and GbE ports on the 7800 switch. There are sixteen FC ports, numbered 0 through 15. The FC ports can op...

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Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 7 53-1001766-01 7800 switch license options 2 VE_Ports and FCIP tunnels on the 7800 switch A 7800 switch can support eight VE_Ports. VE_Ports are numbered from 16 to 23. Each FCIP tunnel is identified with a VE...

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8 Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 53-1001766-01 FX8-24 blade hardware overview 2 FX8-24 blade hardware overview Figure 3 shows the FC ports, GbE port, and 10GbE ports on the FX8-24 blade. There are twelve FC ports, numbered 0 through 11. The ...

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Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 9 53-1001766-01 FX8-24 blade hardware overview 2 FIGURE 3 FX8-24 blade FC and GbE ports 1 10GbE ports. (labeled XGE0 and XGE1 on the sticker). 2 GbE ports 0 through 3. 3 GbE ports 4 through 9. 4 FC ports 6 thro...

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10 Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 53-1001766-01 FX8-24 blade licensing options 2 FX8-24 blade licensing options Some of the capabilities of the FX8-24 blade require slot-based feature licenses. These include the following: • 10GbE support....

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Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 11 53-1001766-01 FCIP trunking 2 FIGURE 4 FCIP tunnel and FCIP circuits Design for redundancy and fault tolerance Multiple FCIP tunnels can be defined between pairs of 7800 switches or FX8-24 blades, but doing ...

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12 Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 53-1001766-01 FCIP trunking 2 • In a scenario where a FCIP tunnel has multiple circuits of different metrics, circuits with higher metrics are treated as standby circuits, and are not used until all lower ...

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Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 13 53-1001766-01 FCIP trunking 2 In Figure 6, circuit 1 is assigned a metric of 0, and circuit 2 is assigned a metric of 1. Both circuits are in the same FCIP tunnel. In this case, circuit 2 is a standby that i...

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14 Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 53-1001766-01 Adaptive Rate Limiting 2 Adaptive Rate Limiting Adaptive Rate Limiting (ARL) is performed on FCIP tunnel circuits to change the rate in which the FCIP tunnel transmits data through the IP netw...

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Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 15 53-1001766-01 QoS SID/DID priorities over an FCIP trunk 2 QoS SID/DID priorities over an FCIP trunk QoS SID/DID traffic prioritization is a capability of Brocade Fabric OS Adaptive Networking licensed featur...

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16 Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 53-1001766-01 QOS, DSCP, and VLANs 2 QOS, DSCP, and VLANs Quality of Service (QoS) refers to policies for handling differences in data traffic. These policies are based on data characteristics and delivery r...

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Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 17 53-1001766-01 QOS, DSCP, and VLANs 2 DSCP and VLAN support on FCIP circuits When a VLAN tag is created on an FCIP circuit, all traffic over that circuit will use the specified VLAN. The options are available...

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18 Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 53-1001766-01 QOS, DSCP, and VLANs 2 The following example creates an additional FCIP circuit with a different VLAN tag. switch:admin> portcfg fcipcircuit 16 create 1 192.168.2.21 192.168.2.11 100000 -v ...

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Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 19 53-1001766-01 QOS, DSCP, and VLANs 2 Keepalive Timeout: 10000 Path MTU Disc: 0 VLAN ID: 300 L2CoS: F: 7 H: 5 M: 3 L: 1 DSCP: F: 32 H: 16 M: 8 L: 4 Flags: 0x00000000 ...

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20 Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 53-1001766-01 Compression options 2 ipif_addr The locally defined IP address. vlan_id The VLAN tag used for this tag (range 1-4094). L2CoS Layer 2 class of service (range 0-7) dst_IP_addr The destination IP a...

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Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 21 53-1001766-01 IPSec implementation over FCIP tunnels 2 • Jumbo frames are not supported for IPsec. • There is no RAS message support for IPsec. • IPsec can only be configured on IPv4 based tunnels. IPSe...

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22 Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 53-1001766-01 IPSec implementation over FCIP tunnels 2 portcfg fciptunnel 17 create 192.168.0.91 192.168.0.81 50000 -x 0 -d c0 -i -K12345678901234567890123456789012 portcfg fcipcircuit 17 create 1 192.168...

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Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 23 53-1001766-01 Open Systems Tape Pipelining 2 Open Systems Tape Pipelining Open Systems Tape Pipelining (OSTP) can be used to enhance open systems SCSI tape write I/O performance. When the FCIP link is the sl...

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24 Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 53-1001766-01 Support for IPv6 Addressing 2 FIGURE 9 Multiple tunnels to multiple ports, Fastwrite and OSTP enabled on a per-tunnel/per-port basis In some cases, traffic isolation zoning TI or LS/LF configura...

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Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 25 53-1001766-01 Support for IPv6 Addressing 2 • The IPv6 8-bit Traffic class field will be defined by the configured Differentiated Services field for IPv6 (RFC 2474). The configuration of this will be done ...

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26 Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 53-1001766-01 Configuration preparation 2 Configuration preparation Before you begin to configure FCIP, do the following: • Determine the amount of bandwidth that will be required for the RDR, FICON or tape...

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Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 27 53-1001766-01 Configuration steps 2 Setting VE_ports to persistently disabled state VE_Ports used on an FCIP tunnel must be persistently disabled before you can configure FCIP tunnels. You must change their ...

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28 Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 53-1001766-01 Configuration steps 2 Setting the GbE port operating mode (FX8-24 blade only) The GbE ports on an FX8-24 blade can operate in one of three ways: • GbE ports 0 through 9 may be enabled as GbE p...

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Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 29 53-1001766-01 Configuration steps 2 Configuring a GbE or XGE port IP address You must configure an IP address, netmask, and an MTU size for each GbE port that you intend to use. This is done using the portCf...

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30 Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 53-1001766-01 Configuration steps 2 Configuring an IP route Routing is based on the destination IP address presented by an FCIP circuit. If the destination address is not on the same subnet as the GbE port I...

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Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 31 53-1001766-01 Configuration steps 2 Creating an FCIP tunnel FCIP tunnels are created using the portCfg fciptunnel create command. The following command creates the FX8-24 end of the tunnel. VE_port 12 is spe...

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32 Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 53-1001766-01 Configuration steps 2 TABLE 4 Tunnel options Option Argument Disruptive Description Compression -c 0|1|2|3 Enables compression on an FCIP tunnel. Compression is set by the portCfg fciptunnel ...

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Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 33 53-1001766-01 Configuration steps 2 . TABLE 5 Circuit options Option Argument Disruptive Description Committed rate <committed rate> This option may be used on a portcfg fciptunnel create command or o...

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34 Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 53-1001766-01 Configuration steps 2 Minimum retransmit time -m The minimum retransmit time, in milliseconds. The range of valid values is 20 through 5,000 ms and the default is 100 ms. failover/standby me...

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Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 35 53-1001766-01 Configuration steps 2 Creating additional FCIP circuits If the Advanced Extension license is enabled, additional FCIP circuits can be created and added to an FCIP tunnel using the portCfg fcip...

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36 Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 53-1001766-01 Configuration steps 2 Enabling persistently disabled ports Ports must be disabled while they are being configured. Before an FCIP tunnel can be used, the associated ports must be persistently e...

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Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 37 53-1001766-01 Modifying an FCIP tunnel 2 Modifying an FCIP tunnel FCIP tunnel characteristics and options can be modified as needed, using the portCfg fcipTunnel command with the modify option. The command s...

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38 Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 53-1001766-01 Deleting an IP route 2 Deleting an IP route You can delete an IP route to a gateway destination IP address using the portcfg iproute with the delete option. The command syntax is as follows: po...

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Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 39 53-1001766-01 Chapter 3FCIP on the 7500 Switch and FR4-18i Blade In this chapter •The 7500 switch and FR4-18i blade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 •FCIP services license...

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40 Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 53-1001766-01 The 7500 switch and FR4-18i blade 3 The 7500 switch and FR4-18i blade Fabric OS supports SAN extension between Brocade 7500 switches, or between FR4-18i blades installed on Brocade 48000 direct...

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Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 41 53-1001766-01 FCIP Design Considerations for the 7500 switch and FR4-18i blade 3 7500 switch and FR4-18i blade ports Each Brocade 7500 Extension Switch with an upgraded license and FR4-18i blade presents 16 F...

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42 Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 53-1001766-01 FCIP Design Considerations for the 7500 switch and FR4-18i blade 3 Virtual ports and FCIP tunnels Each Brocade 7500 Extension Switch with an upgraded license and FR4-18i blade presents 16 FC po...

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Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 43 53-1001766-01 FCIP Design Considerations for the 7500 switch and FR4-18i blade 3 FIGURE 15 Network using FCIP Compression on FCIP tunnels Data compression can be enabled or disabled on FCIP tunnels. The defau...

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44 Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 53-1001766-01 FCIP services license 3 FCIP services license Most of the FCIP extension services described in this chapter require the Brocade High Performance Extension over FCIP/FC license . Use the license...

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Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 45 53-1001766-01 IPSec implementation over FCIP 3 When both DSCP and L2CoS are used If an FCIP tunnel is not VLAN tagged, only DSCP is relevant. If the FCIP tunnel is VLAN tagged, both DSCP and L2CoS are releva...

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46 Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 53-1001766-01 IPSec implementation over FCIP 3 IPsec uses some terms that you should be familiar with before beginning your configuration. These are standard terms, but are included here for your convenience...

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Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 47 53-1001766-01 IPSec implementation over FCIP 3 • Secure Tunnels cannot be defined with VLAN Tagged connections. IPsec configuration IPsec requires predefined configurations for IKE and IPsec. You can enabl...

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48 Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 53-1001766-01 IPSec implementation over FCIP 3 The parameters listed inTable 11 can be modified. Creating an IKE and IPsec policy For a complete description of the policy command, see the Fabric OS Command Re...

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Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 49 53-1001766-01 IPSec implementation over FCIP 3 IKE Policy 10 ----------------------------------------- Authentication Algorithm: MD5 Encryption: 3DES Perfect Forward Secrecy: on Diffie-Hellman Group: 1 SA Lif...

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50 Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 53-1001766-01 IPSec implementation over FCIP 3 where type is the policy type and number is the number assigned. For example, to delete the IPsec policy number 10: switch:admin> policy --delete ipsec 10 Th...

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Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 51 53-1001766-01 Virtual Fabrics and FCIP 3 Virtual Fabrics and FCIP Any GigE_Port and all of its associated FCIP tunnels on a chassis can be assigned to any Logical Switch. As with the current Fabric OS, the p...

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52 Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 53-1001766-01 Options for enhancing tape I/O performance 3 Options for enhancing tape I/O performance There are two options available for enhancing open systems SCSI tape write I/O performance: • FCIP Fastw...

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Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 53 53-1001766-01 Options for enhancing tape I/O performance 3 FCIP Fastwrite and OSTP configurations To help understand the supported configurations, consider the configurations shown in the two figures below. ...

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54 Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 53-1001766-01 Options for enhancing tape I/O performance 3 FIGURE 17 Multiple tunnels to multiple ports, Fastwrite and OSTP enabled on a per-tunnel/per-port basis Unsupported configurations for Fastwrite and ...

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Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 55 53-1001766-01 Options for enhancing tape I/O performance 3 FIGURE 18 Unsupported configurations with Fastwrite and OSTP VE-VE or VEX-VEX ...

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56 Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 53-1001766-01 FCIP services configuration guidelines 3 FCIP services configuration guidelines There are multiple configuration requirements and options associated with FCIP services. The following general gu...

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Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 57 53-1001766-01 Setting persistently disabled ports 3 Setting persistently disabled ports Ports used on an FCIP tunnel must be persistently disabled before you can configure FCIP tunnels. You must change their...

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58 Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 53-1001766-01 Creating IP interfaces and routes 3 Creating IP interfaces and routes The IP network connection between two Brocade 7500 Extension switches or two FC4-18i blades or one Brocade 7500 Extension s...

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Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 59 53-1001766-01 Creating IP interfaces and routes 3 The destination IPv6 address of the virtual port, if IPv6 is used. The address must be an IPv6 global, unicast address. Optionally specify the prefix length....

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60 Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 53-1001766-01 Creating IP interfaces and routes 3 The following example shows two routes being added to an interface: switch:admin06> portcfg iproute 8/ge0 create 192.168.11.0 255.255.255.0 192.168.100.1 ...

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Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 61 53-1001766-01 Creating an FCIP tunnel 3 -q type-of-service The DiffServ QoS. The default is 0 (zero). The value must be an integer in the range from 0 through 255. -t ttl The time to live. The default value ...

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62 Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 53-1001766-01 Creating an FCIP tunnel 3 portCfg fciptunnel [slot/]ge0|ge1 create tunnel_id remote_ip_addr local_ip_addr comm_rate [-c] [-s] [-f] [-t] [-M] [-n remote_wwn] [-k timeout] [-r retransmissions] [-...

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Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 63 53-1001766-01 Verifying the FCIP tunnel configuration 3 -v vlan_id The number used as the VLAN ID. This number is used in the IP frame to route the frame to a specific VLAN. -p control_L2Cos The layer 2 cla...

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64 Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 53-1001766-01 Verifying the FCIP tunnel configuration 3 tunnel_id Displays the specified FCIP tunnel. The following example shows an active tunnel FCIP Fastwrite and OSTP (tape pipelining) enabled. If TCP By...

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Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 65 53-1001766-01 Enabling persistently disabled ports 3 IKE Policy 1 IPSec Policy 1 Pre-Shared Key qbcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz123456 After FCIP tunnels are created, the configuration is s...

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66 Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 53-1001766-01 Enabling persistently disabled ports 3 1. Connect to the switch and log in using an account assigned to the admin role. 2. Enter the portCfgShow command to view ports that are persistently disab...

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Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 67 53-1001766-01 Managing FCIP tunnels 3 Managing FCIP tunnels CAUTION Using the modify option disrupts traffic on the specified FCIP tunnel for a brief period of time. NOTE IPsec-enabled tunnels cannot be m...

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68 Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 53-1001766-01 Managing FCIP tunnels 3 The maximum number of retransmissions on the existing FCIP tunnel. The range of valid values is 1 through 16. If OSTP is enabled, the number of retransmissions is calcu...

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Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 69 53-1001766-01 Managing FCIP tunnels 3 portCfg fciptunnel [Slot/]ge0|ge1 qosmap tunnel_id -default|-delete|vc_num -Q dscp -P L2cos Where: tunnel_id The tunnel_id. Range is 0-7. -default Resets or sets the...

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70 Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 53-1001766-01 Managing the VLAN tag table 3 Deleting an IP interface (IPIF) The following command deletes an IP interface. portcfg ipif [slot/]ge0|ge1 delete ipaddr NOTE You cannot delete an IP interface un...

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Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 71 53-1001766-01 Chapter 4FCIP Management and Troubleshooting In this chapter •WAN performance analysis tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 •FCIP tunnel issues . . ....

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72 Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 53-1001766-01 WAN performance analysis tools 4 Tperf will test single and multiple circuit tunnels. Tperf also tests the different priority connections that are provided by an FCIP Tunnel. When a Tperf--enab...

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Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 73 53-1001766-01 WAN performance analysis tools 4 -time Specifies the duration of the Tperf traffic flow in seconds. If a duration is not specified, the process continues to run until it is terminated with Ctr...

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74 Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 53-1001766-01 WAN performance analysis tools 4 ********************************************************************** ********************************************************************** Tunnel ID: 16 ...

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Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 75 53-1001766-01 WAN performance analysis tools 4 The ipperf option NOTE The ipperf option is for 7500 switches and FR4-18i blades. It does not work with 7800 switches and FX8-24 blades. The ipperf option al...

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76 Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 53-1001766-01 WAN performance analysis tools 4 Ipperf performance statistics The following table lists the end-to-end IP path performance statistics that you can display using the portCmd ipperf command and ...

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Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 77 53-1001766-01 WAN performance analysis tools 4 2. Configure the sender test endpoint using a similar CP CLI. The syntax for invoking the sender test endpoint using --ipperf for slot8, port ge0 on an FR4-18i...

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78 Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 53-1001766-01 WAN performance analysis tools 4 Ipperf options Please refer to Brocade Fabric OS Command Reference Manual or the man pages for definitive command syntax and option descriptions. Ipperf options...

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Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 79 53-1001766-01 WAN performance analysis tools 4 Using ping to test a connection The portCmd ping command tests the connection between the IP address of a local Ethernet port and a destination IP address. If y...

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80 Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 53-1001766-01 WAN performance analysis tools 4 Using Traceroute The portCmd traceroute command traces routes from a local Ethernet port to a destination IP address. If you want to use this command to trace a...

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Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 81 53-1001766-01 Portshow command usage 4 Portshow command usage The portshow command can be used to display operational information for 7800 switches, FX8-24 blades, 7500 switches, and FR4-18i blades. The Fabr...

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82 Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 53-1001766-01 Portshow command usage 4 23 0 ge0 Disable ----s 0s 0.00 0.00 0 200/1000 0 23 1 ge1 Disable ----s 0s 0.00 0.00 0 200/1000 0 23 2 ge5...

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Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 83 53-1001766-01 Portshow command usage 4 Oper Status: Up Remote IP: 100.83.0.100 Local IP: 100.80.0.100 Metric: 0 Min Comm Rt: 150000 Max Comm Rt: 150000 SACK: On Min Retrans Time: 100 Max Retransmits: 8 Keepal...

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84 Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 53-1001766-01 Portshow command usage 4 Metric: 0 Min Comm Rt: 150000 Max Comm Rt: 150000 SACK: On Min Retrans Time: 100 Max Retransmits: 8 Keepalive Timeout: 5000 Path MTU Disc: 0 VLAN ID: 0 L2CoS: F: 0 H: 0 ...

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Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 85 53-1001766-01 Portshow command usage 4 switch:admin>portshow fciptunnel 17 -c --tcp ------------------------------------------- Tunnel ID: 17 Tunnel Description: Admin Status: Enabled Oper Status: Up Compr...

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86 Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 53-1001766-01 Portshow command usage 4 Retransmit Timeout: 0 ms, Duplicate ACKs 0 Retransmits: 0, max: 0 Fast ReTx: 0, HWM 0, Slow ReTx: 0 Receiver Statistics: Bytes Received: 19624 Packets Received: 450 Rece...