fcovertcpip - N_Port support.

["Venkat Rangan" <venkat@rhapsodynetworks.com>]

In looking at the latest draft-ietf-ips-fcovertcpip-01.txt document, it
looks like Section 6.2 (below) could cover the ability to provide
connectivity between N_Ports (the area that iFCP covers in great detail).
May be it needs some additional work to diagram and explain how this is
possible, but if that is the case, what additional capabilities does iFCP
proposal provide? Would this not be a natual way to integrate the two?

From draft-ietf-ips-fcovertcpip-01.txt:
>   6.2 FC Device
>
>      The protocol encapsulation and mapping of the FC frame described
>      in earlier sections applies equally to any pair of FC devices
>      (e.g. switch-to-switch or host-to-storage subsystem) wishing to
>      tunnel FC frames across an IP-based network.  Any FC routing
>      protocol exchanges may still occur transparently to the FCIP
>      devices.  It should be noted that Fibre Channel Primitive
>      Sequences and Primitives are not exchanged between FCIP devices.

Regards,

Venkat Rangan
Rhapsody Networks Inc.
http://www.rhapsodynetworks.com