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To any kind persons (and even unkind ones), I am
looking for a few answers that I am not seeing addressed in standards docs
on-line. Hopefully, someone has a few answers to the following
questions:
1. Where does the FCIP protocol spec stand at
present? Has it been moved up the food chain for ratification? If
not, is there any thinking on when this will happen?
2. Are
there any reasons or situations in which FCIP might be
considered preferable to iFCP? What are its
strengths?
3. How is FC SAN node addressing handled in a
multi-"island" SAN interconnected by FCIP links?
4. How are IP
performance problems handled in FCIP? Is radical reconstruction required
each time an IP network-related interruption occurs?
5. Where
will the heavy lifting of FCIP (the encapsulation of the data for transmission
through the tunnel) be implemented? On the FC switch blade? on an IP
switch or router blade? On some third party device? Are
their
different implementations? Any benefits or drawbacks of
each?
Thanks in advance.
Jon William Toigo
Independent
Consultant and Author
jtoigo@intnet.net
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