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This draft is a work item of the IP Storage Working Group of the IETF.
Title : Fibre Channel Over TCP/IP (FCIP)
Author(s) : M. Rajagopal, R. Bhagwat et al.
Filename : draft-ietf-ips-fcovertcpip-00.txt
Pages : 21
Date : 31-Oct-00
Fibre Channel (FC) is a dominant technology used in Storage Area
Networks (SAN). The purpose of this draft is to specify a standard
standard way of encapsulating FC frames over TCP/IP and to describe
mechanisms that allow islands of FC SANs to be interconnected over
IP-based networks. FC over TCP/IP relies on IP-based network
services to provide the connectivity between the SAN islands over
LANs, MANs, or WANs. The FC over TCP/IP specification relies upon
TCP for congestion control and management and upon both TCP and FC
for data error and data loss recovery. FC over TCP/IP treats all
classes of FC frames the same -- as datagrams.
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