Question on the SNIA Level 1 test objective "Names of protocols
currently mapped to Fibre Channel"

The following two books give me a diferent take as follows.


Storage Area Network Fundamentals; Gupta
This book splits them into channel and network:

The channel protocols supported by the FC-4 layer are:

Small Computer System Interface (SCSI)
High Performance Parallel Interface (HIPPI)
Intelligent Peripheral Interface (IPI)
Fibre Channel Link Encapsulation (Fibre Channel-LE)
Single Byte Command Code Set (SBCCS)

The network protocols supported by the FC-4 layer are:

Internet Protocol (IP)
ATM Adaptation Layer-5 (AAL-5)
IEEE 802.5

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Building SANS with Brocade; Beauchamp, Judd and Kuo

This book makes no such distinction.

Small Computer Systems Interface (SCSI)
Internet Protocol (IP)
Virtual Interface (VI)
Intelligent Peripheral Interface (IPI)
High-Performance Parallel Interface (HIPPI)
Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI)


Would someone shed some light on what the SNIA considers "Names of
protocols currently mapped to Fibre Channel" ?


Thanks!

Regards,

R. Damian Koziel

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> The following two books give me a diferent take as follows.
>
>
> Storage Area Network Fundamentals; Gupta
> This book splits them into channel and network:
>
> The channel protocols supported by the FC-4 layer are:
>
> Small Computer System Interface (SCSI)
> High Performance Parallel Interface (HIPPI)
> Intelligent Peripheral Interface (IPI)
> Fibre Channel Link Encapsulation (Fibre Channel-LE)
> Single Byte Command Code Set (SBCCS)
>
> The network protocols supported by the FC-4 layer are:
>
> Internet Protocol (IP)
> ATM Adaptation Layer-5 (AAL-5)
> IEEE 802.5
>
> ----------
>
> Building SANS with Brocade; Beauchamp, Judd and Kuo
>
> This book makes no such distinction.
>
> Small Computer Systems Interface (SCSI)
> Internet Protocol (IP)
> Virtual Interface (VI)
> Intelligent Peripheral Interface (IPI)
> High-Performance Parallel Interface (HIPPI)
> Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI)
>
>
> Would someone shed some light on what the SNIA considers "Names of
> protocols currently mapped to Fibre Channel" ?
>
>
> Thanks!
>
Do you know http://www.t11.org/index.htm? Thats my reference for
any protocol relevant question. Your ULPs should be defined in FC-PH-3
draft.

Rene

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