Reference Guide

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FIP Snooping

Overview

In a converged Ethernet network, an MXL Switch or can operate as an intermediate Ethernet

bridge to snoop on Fibre Channel over Ethernet Initialization Protocol (FIP) packets during the login

process on Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) forwarders (FCFs). Acting as a transit FIP snooping

bridge, the switch uses dynamically-created ACLs to permit only authorized FCoE traffic to be

transmitted between an FCoE end-device and an FCF.

The following FTOS commands are used to configure and verify the FIP snooping feature on the

FIP

• clear fip-snooping database interface vlan

• clear fip-snooping statistics

• debug fip snooping

• feature fip-snooping

• fip-snooping enable

• fip-snooping fc-map

• fip-snooping port-mode fcoe-trusted

• fip-snooping port-mode fcf

• show fip-snooping config

• show fip-snooping enode

• show fip-snooping fcf

• show fip-snooping sessions

• show fip-snooping statistics

• show fip-snooping system

• show fip-snooping vlan

clear fip-snooping database interface vlan

Clear FIP snooping information on a VLAN for a specified FCoE MAC address, ENode MAC address,

or FCF MAC address, and remove the corresponding ACLs generated by FIP snooping.

Syntax

clear fip-snooping database interface vlan {vlan-id} enode {enode-mac-address} | fcf

{fcf-mac-address} | session {session-mac-address}