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Information About FCIP

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The Fibre Channel over IP Protocol (FCIP) is a tunneling protocol that connects geographically 
distributed Fibre Channel storage area networks (SAN islands) transparently over IP local area networks 
(LANs), metropolitan area networks (MANs), and wide area networks (WANs). The switch can connect 
separated SAN islands using Fibre Channel over IP (FCIP) .

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FCIP uses TCP as a network layer transport. The DF bit is set in the TCP header.

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<strong>Note	&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</strong> For more information about FCIP protocols, refer to the IETF standards for IP storage at 
<a href="http://www.ietf.org" target="_window">http://www.ietf.org</a>. Also refer to Fibre Channel standards for switch backbone connection at 
<a href="http://www.t11.org" target="_window">http://www.t11.org</a> (see FC-BB-2).

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This section includes the following topics:

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<a name="wp1079288"> </a><li class="pSmartList1"><a href="cfcip03.html">FCIP Concepts</a>
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<a name="wp1079338"> </a><li class="pSmartList1"><a href="cfcip08.html">FCIP High-Availability Solutions</a>
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<a name="wp1079339"> </a><li class="pSmartList1"><a href="cfcip13.html">Ethernet PortChannels and Fibre Channel PortChannels</a>
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<a name="wp1079356"> </a><li class="pSmartList1"><a href="cfcip14.html">FCIP Profile Configuration</a>
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<a name="wp1079369"> </a><li class="pSmartList1"><a href="cfcip15.html">Peers</a>
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<a name="wp1079382"> </a><li class="pSmartList1"><a href="cfcip17.html">Quality of Service</a>
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<a name="wp1079394"> </a><li class="pSmartList1"><a href="cfcip18.html">E Ports</a>
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<a name="wp1079407"> </a><li class="pSmartList1"><a href="cfcip19.html">FCIP Write Acceleration</a>
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<a name="wp1079411"> </a><li class="pSmartList1"><a href="cfcip20.html">FCIP Tape Acceleration</a>
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<a name="wp1079466"> </a><li class="pSmartList1"><a href="cfcip21.html">FCIP Compression</a>
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