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FIP Snooping
In a converged Ethernet network, an MXL Switch can operate as an intermediate Ethernet bridge to
snoop on Fibre Channel over Ethernet initialization protocol (FIP) packets during the login process on
Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) forwarders (FCFs).
Acting as a transit FIP snooping bridge, the switch uses dynamically-created ACLs to permit only
authorized FCoE traffic to be transmitted between an FCoE end-device and an FCF. The following Dell
Networking Operating System (OS) commands are used to configure and verify the FIP snooping feature.
clear fip-snooping database interface vlan
Clear FIP snooping information on a VLAN for a specified FCoE MAC address, ENode MAC address, or
FCF MAC address, and remove the corresponding ACLs FIP snooping generates.
Syntax
clear fip-snooping database interface vlan
vlan-id
{
fcoe-mac-
address
|
enode-mac-address
|
fcf-mac-address
}
Parameters
fcoe-mac-
address
Enter the FCoE MAC address to be cleared of FIP snooping
information.
enode-mac-
address
Enter the ENode MAC address to be cleared of FIP snooping
information.
fcf-mac-
address
Enter the FCF MAC address to be cleared of FIP snooping
information.
Command
Modes
EXEC Privilege
Command
History
Version 9.2(0.0)
Introduced on the M I/O Aggregator. This command is
supported in Programmable-Mux (PMUX) mode only.
Version 8.3.16.1
Introduced on the MXL 10/40GbE Switch IO Module.
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