IP address(es) over Tachyon FC card?

[hpinvent_1]

Can we plumb an IP address(es) over Tachyon FC card? If yes, how?

Thanks and regards,
Abhijit.

[Joseph Loo]

hi,

the tachyon fc card is meant for mass storage connectivity.

for network connectivity and at gigabits rate, refer to the 1000Base Gigibits network adapters.

http://www.hp.com/products1/serverconnectivity/adapters/index.html

regards.

[Devender Khatana]

Hi Abijit,

IP address can only be assigned to a card of class lan.

FC card belongs to HBA category. This is used for SAN connectivity.

HTH,
Devender

[Torsten.]

Sorry, LAN functionality over a FC connection is NOT supported by HP_UX.

[hpinvent_1]

I heard that for Emulex FC drivers, plumbing IP over FC was supported for HPUX (atleast for HPUX11). You could enable the feature from SAM and then get a new network device on which you could then plumb the IP.

Was this support stopped sometime post HPUX11.0?

Thanks and regards,
Abhijit.

[Craig Gilmore · Accepted solution]

Sorry,

Yes, HP was working on allowing IP communication over FC. It was supported on the Lighthouse cards on the 700 series systems back in the mid-late 1990's. 10.x timeframe.

However, IP over Fibre Channel has not been supported for over five years. The driver for the Tachyon card does not include IP support.

[rick jones]

FWIW, IP over FC was also supported on the 800's and the HSC FC card in the 10.x timeframe. My understanding is that there was insufficient customer interest to keep it going. Stuff like GbE and now 10GbE pretty much killed it. Particularly with JumboFrame support.

At this point, submitting ER's through the RC would be the SOP :)

rick jones

[HGN]

Hi Abhijit

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Rgds

HGN