Tracy Reed wrote: > On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 10:23:55PM -0700, Skylar Thompson spake thusly: > >> FC actually is routable. I've never needed to route it, so I can't speak >> to how it works, but the feature's there. >> > > Layer 2 or layer 3 routing? I assumed we were talking about routing > over Internet Protocol. > > The FC protocol stack doesn't map directly to the OSI model. Routing happens at FC-2, which loosely corresponds with the network layer in the OSI model. This would be equivalent to IP routing and not just Ethernet-level switching. You've now just exhausted my knowledge of the subject though. :)
Hopefully someone with more SAN experience will chime in to give more details... -- -- Skylar Thompson ([email protected]) -- http://www.cs.earlham.edu/~skylar/
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