Users Guide
Conguring FIP Snooping
You can enable FIP snooping globally on all FCoE VLANs on a switch or on an individual FCoE VLAN in bridge-to-FCF links. By
default, FIP snooping is disabled.
NOTE: When you congure the S5000 as an NPIV proxy gateway and enable Fibre Channel capability (the feature fc
command), FIP snooping is automatically enabled on all VLANs on the switch, using the default FIP snooping settings.
Only the fip-snooping max-sessions-per-enodemac command is supported to congure FIP snooping.
1. Enable the FCoE transit feature on a switch.
CONFIGURATION mode
feature fip-snooping
The default for FCoE transit with FIP snooping is disabled.
2. Enable FIP snooping on all VLANs or on a specied VLAN.
CONFIGURATION mode or VLAN INTERFACE mode
fip-snooping enable
The default for FIP snooping is disabled on all VLANs.
3. Congure the FC-MAP value FIP snooping uses to identify an ENode MAC address on all VLANs.
CONFIGURATION mode or VLAN INTERFACE mode
fip-snooping fc-map fc-map-value
The valid values are from 0EFC00 to 0EFCFF.
The default is 0x0EFC00.
4. Congure the maximum number of FIP-snooping sessions supported on the switch for an ENode MAC address.
CONFIGURATION mode
fip-snooping max-sessions-per-enodemac max-value
Valid values are from 1 to 64.
The default is 32 sessions are supported.
5. Enter the interface conguration level to congure a 10-Gigabit Ethernet or FC port for FIP snooping.
CONFIGURATION mode
interface port-type slot/port
NOTE: By default, a port is enabled for bridge-to-ENode links.
6. Congure the port for bridge-to-FCF links.
INTERFACE mode or CONFIGURATION mode
fip-snooping port-mode fcf
To disable the FCoE transit feature or FIP snooping on VLANs, use the no version of a command; for example, no feature fip-
snooping
or no fip-snooping enable.
FCoE Transit
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