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FIP Snooping Prerequisites
Before you enable FCoE transit and configure FIP snooping on a switch, ensure that certain conditions are met.
A FIP snooping bridge requires data center bridging exchange protocol (DCBx) and priority-based flow control (PFC) to be
enabled on the switch for lossless Ethernet connections (refer to theData Center Bridging (DCB) chapter). Dell Networking
recommends also enabling enhanced transmission selection (ETS); however, ETS is recommended but not required.
If you enable DCBx and PFC mode is on (PFC is operationally up) in a port configuration, FIP snooping is operational on the port.
If the PFC parameters in a DCBx exchange with a peer are not synchronized, FIP and FCoE frames are dropped on the port
after you enable the FIP snooping feature.
For VLAN membership, you must:
create the VLANs on the switch which handles FCoE traffic (use the interface vlan command).
configure each FIP snooping port to operate in Hybrid mode so that it accepts both tagged and untagged VLAN frames (use
the portmode hybrid command).
configure tagged VLAN membership on each FIP snooping port that sends and receives FCoE traffic and has links with an
FCF, ENode server, or another FIP snooping bridge (use the tagged port-type slot/port command).
The default VLAN membership of the port must continue to operate with untagged frames. FIP snooping is not supported on a
port that is configured for non-default untagged VLAN membership.
FIP Snooping Restrictions
The following restrictions apply when you configure FIP snooping.
The maximum number of FCoE VLANs supported on the switch is eight.
The maximum number of FIP snooping sessions supported per ENode server is 32. To increase the maximum number of
sessions to 64, use the fip-snooping max-sessions-per-enodemac command.
The maximum number of FCFs supported per FIP snooping-enabled VLAN is 12.
Links to other FIP snooping bridges on a FIP snooping-enabled port (bridge-to-bridge links) are not supported on the switch.
Configuring FIP Snooping
You can enable FIP snooping globally on all FCoE VLANs on a switch or on an individual FCoE VLAN.
By default, FIP snooping is disabled.
To enable FCoE transit on the switch and configure the FCoE transit parameters on ports, follow these steps.
1. Enable the FCoE transit feature on a switch.
CONFIGURATION mode.
feature fip-snooping
2. Enable FIP snooping on all VLANs or on a specified VLAN.
CONFIGURATION mode or VLAN INTERFACE mode.
fip-snooping enable
By default, FIP snooping is disabled on all VLANs.
3. Configure the FC-MAP value used by FIP snooping on all VLANs.
CONFIGURATION VLAN or INTERFACE mode
fip-snooping fc-map fc-map-value
The default is 0x0EFC00.
The valid values are from 0EFC00 to 0EFCFF.
4. Enter interface configuration mode to configure the port for FIP snooping links.
CONFIGURATION mode
interface port-type slot/port
By default, a port is configured for bridge-to-ENode links.
5. Configure the port for bridge-to-FCF links.
INTERFACE or CONFIGURATION mode
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