- IPFC
- Fibre Channel
- Asia-Pacific Fishery Commission
- Phewa Lake
- Fibre Channel over IP
- Information Presentation Facility
- Static synchronous compensator
- Su Mudaerji
- Perak
- David Bellwood
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IPFC stands for Internet Protocol over Fibre Channel. It governs a set of standards created in January 2006 for address resolution (ARP) and transmitting IPv4 and IPv6 network packets over a Fibre Channel (FC) network. IPFC makes up part of the FC-4 protocol-mapping layer of a Fibre Channel system.
In IPFC, each IP datagram packet is wrapped into a FC frame, with its own header, and transmitted as a sequence of one or more frames. The receiver at the other end receives the frames, strips the FC headers and reassembles the IP packet. IP datagrams of up to 65,280 bytes in size may be accommodated. ARP packet transmission works in the same fashion. Each IP datagram exchange is unidirectional, although IP and TCP allow for bidirectional communication within their protocols.
IPFC is an application protocol that is typically implemented as a device driver in an operating system. IP over FC plays a less important role in storage area networking than SCSI over Fibre Channel or IP over Ethernet. IPFC has been used, for example, to provide clock synchronization via the Network Time Protocol (NTP).
See also
iFCP - Internet Fibre Channel Protocol
Fibre Channel over IP
References
External links
RFC 4338 - Transmission of IPv6, IPv4, and Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) Packets over Fibre Channel
RFC 5494 - An update of RFC 4338 specifying IANA guidelines for ARP
RFC 2625, RFC 3831 were older versions of IPFC obsoleted by RFC 4338