hi, can someone please point me to a guide for setting up TCP/IP over fibre channel. A search on google turns up results saying it's supposed to be possible, but theres no real info describing it, it's just mentioned in some places. Is it configured like a standard NIC or is there more to it than this?

Fiber cable is the media. The data doesn't care how it gets there. In the case of optical cable, it's faster is all. Larry Today seems like a good day to chew through the restraints.

Fibre channel is not the same as fiber optical cable [single or multimode]. Fibre channel is for connecting SANs to clusters/servers. The ip side is iSCSI which is not like configuring tcp/ip. See here http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci750136,00.html configuring fiber cable is no different than configuring cat5/6e cable for ip. Give a person a fish you feed them for a day. Ask a person to internet search and they learn a skill for a lifetime.

Could the original post mean IP over Firewire? If so you just plug in two computers that have firewire with a standard firewire cable as I understand it. XP does the rest and then you must set up the network connection just like a normal ethernet card. If not I just wasted a bunch of bits.

Hi, thanks for the quick replies, sorry for any confusion I have caused. Firstly I am not confusing Fibre Channel with other networking technologies such as FDDI or Firewire etc. From the information I have gathered, running the IP protocol over a FC interface is just like running the SCSI protocol over it. Below is some of the information I have gathered: # RFC 2625 - IP and ARP over Fibre Channel: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2625.txt # RFC 3831 - Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Fibre Channel: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3831.txt Diagram of FC-0 to FC-4 Layers: http://hsi.web.cern.ch/HSI/fcs/spec/overview.htm#b3 Definition of IPFC: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPFC The reason I’m asking the question is because all the above information looks like its in the draft stages. What I want to know is, has this actually been implemented or is it only something that would work in theory?