Brocade Communications Systems CNA - Manual (Page 22)

4 Brocade Adapters Administrator’s Guide
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FCoE protocols supported
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FCoE protocols supported
The Brocade FCoE converged network adapter supports two layers of protocols: Ethernet link layer
and FCoE layer. They are listed in the following sections.
Ethernet link layer protocols supported
The following protocols support the Ethernet link layer.
• 802.1q (VLAN)
• 802.1Qaz (enhanced transmission selection)
• 802.1Qbb (priority flow control)
• 802.3ad (link aggregation)
• 802.3ae (10 Gb Ethernet)
• 802.1p (priority encoding)
• IEEE 1149.1 (JTAG) for manufacturing debug and diagnostics
• IPv4 specification (RFC 793/768)
• IPv6 specification (RFC 2460)
• TCP/UDP specification (RFC 793/768)
• ARP specification (RFC 826)
• RSS with support for IPV4TCP, IPV4, IPV6TCP, IPV6 hash types
• HDS (Header-data split)
FCoE protocols
The following protocols support Fibre Channel over Ethernet.
• FIP (FC-BB5 compliant):
• Support for FIP Discovery protocol for dynamic FCF discovery and FCoE link management
• Support for FPMA and SPMA type FIP fabric login
• Support for Initiator mode only (FCP-3 compliant in Initiator mode)
• SCSI protection information support
• IP-over-FC
• NPIV support