Brocade Network Advisor SAN User Manual v12.1.0 User Manual

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Adding an FCIP circuit

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FIGURE 363

Add FCIP Circuit dialog box

Use the following steps to add a circuit:

1. Select the GiGE Port used for the Ethernet connection on each switch. The choices available

depend on the Extension Switch or Blade model.

For the 8 Gbps Extension blade, GbE ports display according to the operating mode set for the
blade:

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1 Gbps mode - Ports geo through ge9

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10 Gbps mode - Ports xge0 and xge1

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Dual mode - Ports geo through ge9 and xge0

2. Select Crossport circuit to configure the 10 GbE port on an 8 Gbps Blade platform as a 10

Gbps lossless failover circuit.

3. Select the IP Address Type. The implementation is a dual IP layer operation implementation as

described in RFC 4213. IPv6 addresses can exist with IPv4 addresses on the same interface,
but the FCIP circuits must be configured as IPv6 to IPv6 and IPv4 to IPv4 connections.
IPv6-to-IPv4 connections are not supported. Likewise, encapsulation of IPv4 in IPv6 and IPv6
in IPv4 is not supported.

4. Select the IP Address for each port. This implementation of IPv6 uses unicast addresses for

the interfaces with FCIP circuits. The unicast address must follow the RFC 4291 IPv6 standard
and use the IANA assigned IPv6 Global Unicast address space (2000::/3).

5. For IPv4 addresses, specify the Subnet Mask. For IPv6 addresses, specify the prefix length.

The default is created from the IP address and Subnet Mask. If you want to create a route
through a gateway router, click Create Non-Default Route, and select a Gateway address.

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