FIPVLAN(8) Open-FCoE Tools FIPVLAN(8)NAMEfipvlan - Fibre Channel over Ethernet VLAN Discovery
SYNOPSISfipvlan [-c|--create] [-s|--start] interfaces
fipvlan -a|--auto [-c|--create] [-d|--debug] [-s|--start]
[-l|--link-retry count]
fipvlan -h|--help
fipvlan -v|--version
DESCRIPTION
The fipvlan command performs Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)
Initialization Protocol (FIP) VLAN Discovery over Ethernet interfaces.
fipvlan can be used as a diagnostic tool to determine which VLANs have
FCoE services available on a network, prior to configuring VLAN
interfaces and the Open-FCoE initiator. fipvlan can also be used to
create VLAN interfaces as they are discovered, and to start the
Open-FCoE initiator. The --create and --start options are primarily
intended to be used as part of an Open-FCoE boot solution. FCoE
instances started in this way cannot be destroyed or reset by fcoeadm.
fipvlan takes a list of network interface names to run the VLAN
discovery protocol over, or the --auto option to use all available
Ethernet interfaces.
fipvlan will enable any interface which is found disabled. If no
response is received on that interface it will be shutdown again when
fipvlan terminates.
OPTIONS-a, --auto
Use all Ethernet interfaces currently available
-c, --create
Create network interfaces for discovered FCoE VLANs. If a VLAN
device already exists for a discovered VLAN, a new VLAN device will
not be created.
-d, --debug
Enable debugging output
-s, --start
Start the Open-FCoE initiator on discovered FCoE VLANs
-f, --suffix suffix
Append the specified string suffix to VLAN interface names.
-l, --link-retry count
Retry check for link up to count times. The link state is checked
every 500 ms. The default number of retries is 20.
-h, --help
Display a help message with basic usage instructions
-v, --version
Display the fipvlan version string
VLAN NAMING CONVENTIONS
If a new VLAN device is created, it will have the name dev.vlan; where
dev is the name of the Ethernet parent device and vlan is the
discovered VLAN ID number. An optional suffix may be appended to this
with the the -f command line option.
EXAMPLES
Display all discoverable VLANs with FCoE services
fipvlan--auto
Discover FCoE VLANs on interface eth2, create VLAN devices and start
the Open-FCoE initiator
fipvlan--create --start eth2
In this example if FCoE services were available on VLAN 101 of network
interface eth2, then a VLAN interface eth2.101 would be created and
used as the parent device for the initiator.
SEE ALSOfcoeadm(8)fcoemon(8)SUPPORTfipvlan is part of the fcoe-utils package, maintained through the
Open-FCoE project. Resources for both developers and users can be found
at the Open-FCoE website http://open-fcoe.org/
Open-FCoE 02/06/2013 FIPVLAN(8)