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Date: Tue, 2 Aug 94 12:10:41 EDT
From: yakov@watson.ibm.com
Subject: fibreip BOF minutes


Minute of IP over Fibre Channel BOF (fibreip)

    July 29, 1994

Chair: Yakov Rekhter (yakov@watson.ibm.com)

Minutes taken by Yakov Rekhter (T.J. Watson Research Center, IBM Corp.)

Agenda

1. Overview of "IP and ARP on Fibre Channel" Internet Draft

2. Implementation by SSESCO

3. Implementation by IBM

4. Future activities


1. Yakov Rekhter presented the overview of the Internet Draft.
   (a copy of the presentation will be included in the IETF
      proceedings)

2. SSESCO implementation status (based on the information provided
   by Craig W. Carlson from SSESCO, presented by Y. Rekhter):


    o Uses the SNAP/LLC header as outlined in the internet draft.

    o Uses broadcast ARP.  The Ancor switch allows small packets (< 128 bytes)
    to be broadcast.  Our driver uses this ability to broadcast ARP packets
    in the same way that ethernet does.  The format of the ARP packets follows
    what was specified in the internet draft.

    o A mixture of message classes is used.  For packets > 128 bytes class 1
    is used.  For packets <= 128 bytes class 3 is used. (This is actually
    user selectable, but the default is to use class 3 for small packets.)

    o Our driver is able to talk to the HP driver (except for ARP) that also
    uses the SNAP/LLC headers outlined in the internet draft.  We have
    not yet been able to test against the IBM adapter since IBM uses
    Fibre Channel v. 4.2 while Ancor is still using v. 3.0.  Ancor is
    in the process of going to 4.2 so we will have some data in
    the near future.

    o We are currently running on two platforms.  The IBM RS/6000 using the
    Ancor Micro Channel Adapter.  And the SGI Indigo2 using the Ancor
    EISA adapter.

3. IBM Implementation Status (Dan Eisenhauer, presented by Y. Rekhter)
   (a copy of the presentation will be included in the IETF
      proceedings)

4. Future activities.

    Advancing Internet Draft to a Proposed Standard.

         The group agreed that the document should be advanced to a proposed
         standard as soon as SSESCO, IBM, and HP implementations would
         be tested for interoperability.  Ken Hays (Florida State University)
         agreed to lead the interoperability test effort.

    MIB for Fibre Channel

         The group agreed to publish N_Port MIB Internet Draft as an
         Informational RFC once we'll have at least one implementation
         of this MIB. The document will be updated to make it SMIv2 conformant.

         Discussion on the need to develop and standardize Fabric MIB
         didn't reach any conclusion.

    Working Group, mailing list

         The group agreed that there is no need to form an IETF Working
         group or establish a separate mailing list.