Brocade Fabric OS Administrator's Guide Supporting Fabric OS v6.3.0 (53-1001336-02, November 2009)

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E_Port authentication between Fabric OS and M-EOS switches
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TABLE 58 Switch authentication policy when all secrets are correct
Authentication policy when the secrets are not correct
Table 59 and Table 60 show the connection status for the cases where the authentication secrets
are incorrect. Table 59 shows the E_Port connection status when the Fabric OS switch does not
have the correct secret for the M-EOS switch.
Fabric OS Passive Active On Off
M-EOS
On Yes!
Connected with
two-way
authentication; both
sides of the
connection perform
Authentication
(Fabric builds
normally).
Yes!
Connected with
two-way
authentication;
both sides of the
connection perform
Authentication
(Fabric builds
normally).
Yes!
Connected with
two-way
authentication;
both sides of the
connection perform
Authentication
(Fabric builds
normally).
No
E_Port does not
connect
(Authentication
Rejected). When
the Fabric OS
switch generates
the reject, it will
disable the Fabric
OS port. When the
M-EOS switch
generates the
reject, it will go to
an invalid
attachment state.
Off Yes
Connected without
any authentication
(Fabric builds
normally).
Yes*
Connected with
one-way
authentication;
only one of
connected
switches performs
Authentication
(Fabric builds
normally).
Yes*
Connected with
one-way
authentication;
only one of
connected
switches performs
Authentication
(Fabric builds
normally).
Yes
Connected
without any
authentication
(Fabric builds
normally).