HP MPX200 Multifunction Router - Manual (Page 197)

ISR654602-00 H Glossary-3
iSR6200 Router Manager
User’s Guide
failover path
Software feature that ensures data avail-
ability and system reliability by assigning
alternate path and automatic
adapter
failover for device resources. This feature
is available only in Windows 2000,
Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista,
Novell NetWare, Red Hat Linux, and
SUSE Linux. (Windows XP and Windows
Server 2008 do not support failover.)
FC
See Fibre Channel .
FC-IP mode
Data transportation mode in which the
iSR6200 transports Fibre Channel frames
over a TCP/IP connection using the
FCIP
protocol to connect two iSR6200 routers.
In FC-IP mode, a port pair (one Fibre
Channel port and one IP port on the same
router) on a local iSR6200 and another
port pair on a remote router form an FCIP
route.
FCIP
Fibre Channel over IP. Protocol that
enables transmission of Fibre Channel
information by tunneling data on a
SAN
over IP networks. An alternative to iSCSI .
Also known as Fibre Channel tunneling.
FCoE
Fibre Channel over Ethernet. A new
technology defined by the T11 standards
body that allows traditional Fibre Channel
storage networking traffic to travel over an
Ethernet link by encapsulating Fibre
Channel frames inside Layer 2 Ethernet
frames. For more information, visit
www.fcoe.com .
FCP
Fibre Channel protocol. SCSI to Fibre
Channel mapping.
Fibre Channel
A high-speed serial interface technology
that supports other higher layer protocols
such as
SCSI and IP .
Fibre Channel over Ethernet
See FCoE .
Fibre Channel over IP
See FCIP .
field replaceable unit
See FRU .
FL_Port
Fabric loop port. In Fibre Channel, the
fabric switch is capable of Fibre Channel
arbitrated loop operations and is
connected to one or more
NL_Port s by a
Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop. An
FL_Port becomes a shared entry point for
public NL_Port devices to a Fibre Channel
fabric. FL_Ports are intermediate ports in
virtual point-to-point links between end
ports that do not reside on the same loop,
for example NL_Port to FL_Port to F_Port
to N_Port through a single Fibre Channel
fabric switch.
Flash
Non-volatile memory where the boot code
is saved. At times, Flash and boot code
are used interchangeably.
Flash BIOS
A QLA2xxx adapter 's Flash programmable
read-only memory (PROM) contains the
code that allows booting from the adapter
at startup.
frame
Data unit consisting of a start-of-frame
(SOF) delimiter, header, data payload,
CRC , and an end-of-frame (EOF) delim-
iter.