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FIP Snooping on Ethernet Bridges.............................................................................................................................. 322
FIP Snooping in a Switch Stack................................................................................................................................... 324
Using FIP Snooping....................................................................................................................................................... 324
Enable the FCoE Transit Feature........................................................................................................................... 324
FIP Snooping Prerequisites.....................................................................................................................................325
Important Points to Remember............................................................................................................................. 325
Enabling the FCoE Transit Feature........................................................................................................................ 326
Enable FIP Snooping on VLANs.............................................................................................................................326
Congure the FC-MAP Value................................................................................................................................ 326
Congure a Port for a Bridge-to-Bridge Link....................................................................................................... 327
Congure a Port for a Bridge-to-FCF Link........................................................................................................... 327
Impact on Other Software Features......................................................................................................................327
FIP Snooping on an NPIV Proxy Gateway............................................................................................................328
FIP Snooping in an S5000 Stack...........................................................................................................................328
Impact on Other Software Features..................................................................................................................... 328
FIP Snooping Restrictions...................................................................................................................................... 328
Conguring FIP Snooping.......................................................................................................................................329
Displaying FIP Snooping Information.....................................................................................................................330
FCoE Transit Conguration Example...........................................................................................................................335
18 FIPS Cryptography................................................................................................................................... 337
Conguration Tasks....................................................................................................................................................... 337
Preparing the System....................................................................................................................................................337
Enabling FIPS Mode...................................................................................................................................................... 338
Generating Host-Keys...................................................................................................................................................338
Monitoring FIPS Mode Status......................................................................................................................................338
Disabling FIPS Mode..................................................................................................................................................... 339
19 Fibre Channel Interface............................................................................................................................ 340
Congure Fibre Channel Interfaces.............................................................................................................................340
Enabling Fibre Channel Capability................................................................................................................................340
Conguring Fibre Channel Interfaces...........................................................................................................................341
Displaying Fibre Channel Information...........................................................................................................................341
Troubleshooting Fibre Channel Operation...................................................................................................................344
Conguring the Fibre Channel Port Group in Passthrough Ethernet Mode.......................................................... 345
Displaying Fibre Channel Port Group Mode Information...........................................................................................346
20 Force10 Resilient Ring Protocol (FRRP)...................................................................................................347
Protocol Overview......................................................................................................................................................... 347
Ring Status............................................................................................................................................................... 349
Multiple FRRP Rings............................................................................................................................................... 349
Important FRRP Points...........................................................................................................................................350
Important FRRP Concepts......................................................................................................................................351
Implementing FRRP.......................................................................................................................................................352
FRRP Conguration...................................................................................................................................................... 352
Creating the FRRP Group.......................................................................................................................................352
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