[imss] Last Call comments on draft-ietf-imss-fc-zs-mib-00.txt
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Subject: [imss] Last Call comments on draft-ietf-imss-fc-zs-mib-00.txt
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Section 3 is not a "Short" Overview of Fibre Channel ;-). It could usefully be broken into 3 subsections: - Overview - Zoning - Zoning Configuration and Management The first paragraph describing zoning says: Zones within a fabric provide a mechanism to control frame delivery between Nx_Ports ("Hard Zoning") or to expose selected views of Name Server information ("Soft Zoning"). This technique is similar to virtual private networks in that the fabric has the ability to group devices into Zones. It needs an additional few sentences to explain what a zone does and where it's enforced, specifically to make the following points: - Communication is only possible when the communicating endpoints are members of a common zone. - Hard zoning and soft zoning are two different means of realizing this. Hard zoning is enforced in the fabric (i.e., switches) whereas soft zoning is enforced at the endpoints (e.g., HBAs) by relying on the endpoints to not send traffic to an N_Port_ID not obtained from the nameserver with a few exceptions for well known N_Port_IDs used to bootstrap the fabric (e.g., talk to the nameserver). Section 5.4 ought to explain how an SNMP management client can determine whether a fabric is operating in basic vs. enhanced mode. Thanks, --David ---------------------------------------------------- David L. Black, Senior Technologist EMC Corporation, 176 South St., Hopkinton, MA 01748 +1 (508) 293-7953 FAX: +1 (508) 293-7786 black_david@emc.com Mobile: +1 (978) 394-7754 ---------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ imss mailing list imss@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/imss