Brocade for sure can. Both HP and IBM have OEMed it and in PDFs on their
sites you can see that the switch even allows in-band SNMP management.

Zlatko Krastev
IT Consultant



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Subject:        Re: IP over FC on AIX

Umm...re: the attached...that depends on the switch.  The FC/9000
(IBM2042) and (I believe) the Brocades (2109's) will pass IP over fibre.
Not sure about the McData's.

-Lloyd
On Thu, 18 Apr 2002 16:24:13 +0200
On Thu, 18 Apr 2002 16:24:13 +0200
Daniel Sparrman <daniel.sparrman AT EXIST DOT SE> wrote:

> Hi
>
> Sending IP traffic over your SAN will at least make your SAN switches
> confused, as I believe that they do not talk IP, only SCSI commands.


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