ANSI INCITS 384 : 2004
Withdrawn
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Hardcopy , PDF
07-23-2013
English
01-01-2004
Foreword
Introduction
1 Scope
2 Normative references
2.1 Approved references
2.2 References under development
3 Definitions and conventions
3.1 Definitions
3.2 Editorial conventions
3.3 State Machine notation
3.4 Abbreviations, acronyms, and symbols
3.5 Definition of Compliance Terms
3.6 Keywords
4 Structure and Concepts
4.1 Overview
4.2 E_Port Operation
4.3 Fabric Operation
4.4 Fabric Definition
4.5 Switch
4.6 Switching characteristics
4.7 Switch Ports and Bridge Ports
4.8 Fabric Addressing
4.9 Class F Service
4.10 FSPF-Backbone Fabric
5 Switch Ports and Bridge Ports
5.1 Overview
5.2 Model elements
5.3 F_Port Operation
5.4 FL_Port Operation
5.5 E_Port Operation
5.6 B_Port Operation
5.7 Inter-Switch Link Behavior
5.8 Class F Service
6 Internal Link Services
6.1 Switch Fabric Internal Link Services (SW_ILS)
7 Fabric Configuration
7.1 Fabric Configuration Summary
7.2 Switch Port Initialization
7.3 Principal Switch Selection
7.4 Address Distribution
7.5 E_Port and Fabric Isolation
7.6 B_Port Operation
8 Fabric Shortest Path First (FSPF)
8.1 Overview
8.2 FSPF Message Processing
8.3 Hello Protocol
8.4 The Topology Database
8.5 Usage of LSR Fields
8.6 Topology Database Synchronization
8.7 Neighbor Finite State Machine (FSM)
8.8 FSPF-Backbone
9 Distributed Services
9.1 Basic Model
9.2 Distributed Services Framework
9.3 Distributed Name Server
9.4 Distributed Management Server
10 Switch Zone Exchange & Merge
10.1 Overview
10.2 Joining Switches
10.3 Enhanced Zoning Support Determination
10.4 Zoning Framework and Data Structures
10.5 Merge Zone
10.6 Fabric Management Session Protocol
11 Distributed broadcast
11.1 Overview
11.2 Spanning tree
12 Timers and Constants
12.1 General Timers and Constants
12.2 SW_ILS Time-Out Values
Annex A
A.1 Introduction
A.2 Example 1: two E/F/FL_Port-capable Switch Ports
A.3 Example 2: two E/F/FL_Port-capable Switch Ports
and one Nx_Port
A.4 Example 3: one E/F/FL_Port-capable Port and one
E/F_Port-capable Port
Annex B
B.1 Introduction
B.2 ELP Exchange Protocol
B.3 Summary of Responses to ELP
Annex C
C.1 Introduction
C.2 Sample Flows
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