FCoE Initialization Protocol
FCoE Initialization Protocol (FIP) is the FCoE control plane protocol responsible for establishing and maintaining Fibre Channel virtual links between pairs of adjacent FCoE devices (FCoE ENodes or FCoE Fibre Channel Forwarders), potentially across multiple Ethernet segments.
Establishment of the virtual link carries three main steps: discovering the FCoE VLAN, discovering the MAC address of an upstream FCoE Fibre Channel Forwarder, and ultimately performing fabric login/discovery operation (FLOGI or FDISC). After the virtual link has been established, an exchange of Fibre Channel payload encapsulated with the Ethernet headers can begin. FIP continues operating in the background performing virtual link maintenance ...
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