ISO/IEC 14165-246:2019
(Main)Information technology — Fibre channel — Part 246: Backbone — 6 (FC-BB-6)
Information technology — Fibre channel — Part 246: Backbone — 6 (FC-BB-6)
This standard consists of distinct Fibre Channel mappings resulting in the following models: ? FC-BB_IP (FC over TCP/IP backbone network) ? Transparent FC-BB consisting of: ? FC-BB_GFPT (FC over SONET/SDH/OTN/PDH backbone network using GFPT adaptation) ? FC-BB_PW (FC over MPLS network using PW adaptation) ? FC-BB_E (FC over Ethernet)
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INTERNATIONAL ISO/IEC
STANDARD 14165-246
First edition
2019-12
Corrected version
2020-01
Information technology — Fibre
channel —
Part 246:
Backbone — 6 (FC-BB-6)
Reference number
©
ISO/IEC 2019
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Foreword
ISO (the International Organization for Standardization) and IEC (the International Electrotechnical Commission)
form the specialized system for worldwide standardization. National bodies that are members of ISO or IEC
participate in the development of International Standards through technical committees established by the
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This document was prepared by INCITS (as INCITS 509-2014) and drafted in accordance with its editorial rules. It
was assigned to Joint Technical Committee ISO/IEC JTC 1, Information technology, Subcommittee SC 25,
Interconnection of information technology equipment, and adopted under the “fast-track procedure”.
This corrected version of ISO/IEC 14165-246:2019 incorporates the following corrections: throughout the
document, formatting errors affecting the links have been corrected. This has also resulted in a different pagination
of the document.
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Contents Page
Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiv
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xviii
1 Scope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
2 Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.1 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.2 Approved references . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.3 References under development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2.4 ITU-T references . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2.5 IETF references . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2.6 IEEE references . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3 Definitions and conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
3.1 Common definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
3.2 FC-BB_IP definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
3.3 FC-BB_GFPT definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
3.4 FC-BB_PW definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
3.5 FC-BB_E definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
3.6 Editorial conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
3.7 List of commonly used acronyms and abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
3.7.1 General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
3.7.2 FC-BB_IP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
3.7.3 FC-BB_GFPT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
3.7.4 FC-BB_PW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
3.7.5 FC-BB_E . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
3.8 Symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
3.9 Keywords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
4 FC-BB-6 Structure and Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
4.1 FC-BB-6 backbone mappings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
4.2 FC-BB-6 reference models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
4.2.1 FC-BB-6 reference models overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
4.2.2 FC-BB_IP reference model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
4.2.3 FC-BB_GFPT reference model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
4.2.4 FC-BB_PW reference model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
4.2.5 FC-BB_E reference models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
4.2.5.1 FC-BB_E VN_Port to VF_Port reference model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
4.2.5.2 FC-BB_E VE_Port to VE_Port reference model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
4.2.5.3 FC-BB_E VN_Port to VN_Port reference model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
4.2.5.4 FC-BB_E VA_Port to VA_Port reference model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
4.3 FC-BB-6 models overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
4.3.1 FC-BB_IP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
4.3.2 FC-BB_GFPT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
4.3.3 FC-BB_PW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
4.3.4 FC-BB_E . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
4.4 FC-BB-6 requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
4.4.1 Fibre Channel Class support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
4.4.2 Payload transparency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
4.4.2.1 FC-BB_IP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
4.4.2.2 Transparent FC-BB (FC-BB_GFPT and FC-BB_PW) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
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4.4.2.3 FC-BB_E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
4.4.3 Latency delay and timeout value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
4.4.4 QoS and bandwidth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
4.4.5 In-order delivery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
4.4.6 Flow control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
4.5 FC-BB-6 SW_ILS codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
5 FC-BB_IP Structure and Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
5.1 Applicability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
5.2 FC-BB_IP overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
5.3 VE_Port functional model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
5.3.1 FC-BB_IP interface protocol layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
5.3.2 E_Port/F_Port FC interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
5.3.3 FC Switching Element (SE) with FC routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
5.3.4 FC-BB_IP protocol interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
5.3.4.1 Major components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
5.3.4.2 FC and FCIP Entities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
5.3.4.3 VE_Port Virtual ISL exchanges. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
5.3.4.4 Control and Service Module (CSM) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
5.3.4.5 Platform Management Module (PMM) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
5.3.5 IP network interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
5.4 B_Access functional model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
5.4.1 FC-BB_IP interface protocol layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
5.4.2 B_Port FC interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
5.4.3 FC-BB_IP protocol interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
5.4.3.1 Major components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
5.4.3.2 FC and FCIP Entities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
5.4.3.3 B_Access Virtual ISL exchanges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
5.4.3.4 B_Port Control and Service Module (CSM) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
5.4.3.5 B_Port Platform Management Module (PMM) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
5.4.4 IP Network Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
5.5 FC-BB_IP network topologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
5.6 Mapping and message encapsulation using TCP/IP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
5.6.1 Encapsulated frame structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
5.6.1.1 FC frame encapsulation structure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
5.6.1.2 Encapsulated FCIP Special Frame (FSF) structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
5.6.2 TCP/IP encapsulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
5.7 FC-BB_IP protocol procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
5.7.1 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
5.7.2 Procedures for platform management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
5.7.2.1 Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
5.7.2.2 Procedures for discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
5.7.2.3 Procedur
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INTERNATIONAL ISO/IEC
STANDARD 14165-246
First edition
2019-12
Corrected version
2020-01
Information technology — Fibre
channel —
Part 246:
Backbone — 6 (FC-BB-6)
Reference number
©
ISO/IEC 2019
© ISO/IEC 2019
All rights reserved. Unless otherwise specified, or required in the context of its implementation, no part of this publication may
be reproduced or utilized otherwise in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, or posting
on the internet or an intranet, without prior written permission. Permission can be requested from either ISO at the address
below or ISO’s member body in the country of the requester.
ISO copyright office
CP 401 • Ch. de Blandonnet 8
CH-1214 Vernier, Geneva
Phone: +41 22 749 01 11
Fax: +41 22 749 09 47
Email: copyright@iso.org
Website: www.iso.org
Published in Switzerland
ii © ISO/IEC 2019 – All rights reserved
Foreword
ISO (the International Organization for Standardization) and IEC (the International Electrotechnical Commission)
form the specialized system for worldwide standardization. National bodies that are members of ISO or IEC
participate in the development of International Standards through technical committees established by the
respective organization to deal with particular fields of technical activity. ISO and IEC technical committees
collaborate in fields of mutual interest. Other international organizations, governmental and non-governmental, in
liaison with ISO and IEC, also take part in the work.
The procedures used to develop this document and those intended for its further maintenance are described in the
ISO/IEC Directives, Part 1. In particular, the different approval criteria needed for the different types of document
should be noted (see www.iso.org/directives).
Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of patent rights.
ISO and IEC shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights. Details of any patent rights
identified during the development of the document will be in the Introduction and/or on the ISO list of patent
declarations received (see www.iso.org/patents) or the IEC list of patent declarations received (see
http://patents.iec.ch).
Any trade name used in this document is information given for the convenience of users and does not constitute an
endorsement.
For an explanation of the voluntary nature of standards, the meaning of ISO specific terms and expressions related
to conformity assessment, as well as information about ISO's adherence to the World Trade Organization (WTO)
principles in the Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) see www.iso.org/iso/foreword.html.
This document was prepared by INCITS (as INCITS 509-2014) and drafted in accordance with its editorial rules. It
was assigned to Joint Technical Committee ISO/IEC JTC 1, Information technology, Subcommittee SC 25,
Interconnection of information technology equipment, and adopted under the “fast-track procedure”.
This corrected version of ISO/IEC 14165-246:2019 incorporates the following corrections: throughout the
document, formatting errors affecting the links have been corrected. This has also resulted in a different pagination
of the document.
A list of all parts in the ISO/IEC 14165 series can be found on the ISO website.
Any feedback or questions on this document should be directed to the user’s national standards body. A complete
listing of these bodies can be found at www.iso.org/members.html.
© ISO/IEC 2019 – All rights reserved iii
Contents Page
Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiv
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xviii
1 Scope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
2 Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.1 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.2 Approved references . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.3 References under development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2.4 ITU-T references . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2.5 IETF references . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2.6 IEEE references . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3 Definitions and conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
3.1 Common definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
3.2 FC-BB_IP definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
3.3 FC-BB_GFPT definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
3.4 FC-BB_PW definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
3.5 FC-BB_E definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
3.6 Editorial conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
3.7 List of commonly used acronyms and abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
3.7.1 General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
3.7.2 FC-BB_IP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
3.7.3 FC-BB_GFPT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
3.7.4 FC-BB_PW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
3.7.5 FC-BB_E . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
3.8 Symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
3.9 Keywords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
4 FC-BB-6 Structure and Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
4.1 FC-BB-6 backbone mappings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
4.2 FC-BB-6 reference models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
4.2.1 FC-BB-6 reference models overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
4.2.2 FC-BB_IP reference model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
4.2.3 FC-BB_GFPT reference model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
4.2.4 FC-BB_PW reference model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
4.2.5 FC-BB_E reference models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
4.2.5.1 FC-BB_E VN_Port to VF_Port reference model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
4.2.5.2 FC-BB_E VE_Port to VE_Port reference model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
4.2.5.3 FC-BB_E VN_Port to VN_Port reference model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
4.2.5.4 FC-BB_E VA_Port to VA_Port reference model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
4.3 FC-BB-6 models overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
4.3.1 FC-BB_IP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
4.3.2 FC-BB_GFPT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
4.3.3 FC-BB_PW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
4.3.4 FC-BB_E . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
4.4 FC-BB-6 requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
4.4.1 Fibre Channel Class support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
4.4.2 Payload transparency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
4.4.2.1 FC-BB_IP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
4.4.2.2 Transparent FC-BB (FC-BB_GFPT and FC-BB_PW) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
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4.4.2.3 FC-BB_E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
4.4.3 Latency delay and timeout value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
4.4.4 QoS and bandwidth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
4.4.5 In-order delivery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
4.4.6 Flow control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
4.5 FC-BB-6 SW_ILS codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
5 FC-BB_IP Structure and Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
5.1 Applicability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
5.2 FC-BB_IP overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
5.3 VE_Port functional model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
5.3.1 FC-BB_IP interface protocol layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
5.3.2 E_Port/F_Port FC interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
5.3.3 FC Switching Element (SE) with FC routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
5.3.4 FC-BB_IP protocol interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
5.3.4.1 Major components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
5.3.4.2 FC and FCIP Entities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
5.3.4.3 VE_Port Virtual ISL exchanges. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
5.3.4.4 Control and Service Module (CSM) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
5.3.4.5 Platform Management Module (PMM) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
5.3.5 IP network interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
5.4 B_Access functional model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
5.4.1 FC-BB_IP interface protocol layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
5.4.2 B_Port FC interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
5.4.3 FC-BB_IP protocol interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
5.4.3.1 Major components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
5.4.3.2 FC and FCIP Entities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
5.4.3.3 B_Access Virtual ISL exchanges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
5.4.3.4 B_Port Control and Service Module (CSM) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
5.4.3.5 B_Port Platform Management Module (PMM) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
5.4.4 IP Network Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
5.5 FC-BB_IP network topologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
5.6 Mapping and message encapsulation using TCP/IP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
5.6.1 Encapsulated frame structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
5.6.1.1 FC frame encapsulation structure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
5.6.1.2 Encapsulated FCIP Special Frame (FSF) structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
5.6.2 TCP/IP encapsulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
5.7 FC-BB_IP protocol procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
5.7.1 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
5.7.2 Procedures for platform management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
5.7.2.1 Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
5.7.2.2 Procedures for discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
5.7.2.3 Procedur
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