Dell Force10 MXL Blade - FIP Snooping Restrictions; Configuration Procedure

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FIP Snooping Restrictions
The following restrictions apply when you configure FIP snooping on an MXL switch:
• The maximum number of FCoE VLANs supported on the switch is eight.
• The maximum number of FIP snooping sessions (including NPIV sessions) supported per ENode
server is 16.
In a full FCoE N_port ID virtualization (NPIV) configuration, 16 sessions (one FLOGI + fifteen NPIV
sessions) are supported per ENode. In an FCoE NPV configuration, only one session is supported per
ENode.
• The maximum number of FCFs supported per FIP snooping-enabled VLAN is four.
• Links to other FIP snooping bridges on a FIP snooping-enabled port (bridge-to-bridge links) are not
supported on the MXL Switch.
Configuration Procedure
You can enable FIP snooping globally on all FCoE VLANs on a switch or on an individual FCoE VLAN.
To enable FIP snooping on the switch and configure FIP snooping parameters on ports, follow these steps:
Step Task Command Command Mode
1 Enable the FIP snooping feature on a switch.
Default: FIP snooping is disabled.
feature fip-snooping
CONFIGURATION
2 Enable FIP snooping on all VLANs or on a
specified VLAN.
Default: FIP snooping is disabled on all
VLANs.
fip-snooping enable
CONFIGURATION
Or
VLAN INTERFACE
3 Configure the FC-MAP value used by FIP
snooping on all VLANs.
Default: 0x0EFC00.
Valid values are from 0EFC00 to 0EFCFF.
fip-snooping fc-map
fc-map-value
CONFIGURATION
Or
VLAN INTERFACE
4 Enter interface configuration mode to
configure the port for FIP snooping links.
Note: By default, a port is configured for
bridge-to-ENode links.
interface port-type slot
/port CONFIGURATION
5 Configure the port for bridge-to-FCF links.
fip-snooping port-mode fcf
INTERFACE
CONFIGURATION
Note: To disable the FIP snooping feature or FIP snooping on VLANs, use the no version of a command;
for example, no feature fip-snooping or no fip-snooping enable.