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Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Fibre Channel

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RFC 3831                IPv6 over Fibre Channel                July 2004


       6.4.  Generating an Interface ID from a Format 5
             N_Port_Name. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
       6.5.  Generating an Interface ID from an EUI-64
             mapped N_Port_Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
   7.  Link-Local Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
   8.  Address Mapping for Unicast. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
   9.  Address Mapping for Multicast. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
   10. Sequence Management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
   11. Exchange Management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
   12. Security Considerations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
   13. Acknowledgments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
   14. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
       14.1.  Normative References. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
       14.2.  Informative References. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
   A.  Transmission of a Broadcast FC Sequence over FC Topologies . . 20
   B.  Validation of the  mapping . . . . . . 21
   C.  Fibre Channel Bit and Byte Numbering Guidance. . . . . . . . . 22
   Author's Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
   Full Copyright Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

1.  Introduction

   Fibre Channel (FC) is a high speed serial interface technology that
   supports several Upper Layer Protocols including Small Computer
   System Interface (SCSI) and IPv4 as specified in [IPFC].

   The purpose of this document is to specify a way of encapsulating IP
   version 6 [IPv6] over Fibre Channel and to describe a method of
   forming IPv6 link-local addresses [AARCH] and statelessly
   autoconfigured addresses on Fibre Channel networks.  This document
   also describes the content of the Source/Target Link-layer Address
   option used in Neighbor Discovery [DISC] when the messages are
   transmitted on a Fibre Channel network.

   Warning to readers familiar with Fibre Channel: both Fibre Channel
   and IETF standards use the same byte transmission order.  However,
   the bit numbering is different.  See Appendix C for guidance.

   The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
   "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
   document are to be interpreted as described in [KEYWORDS].










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