Hardware-Enforced Overlapping Zones; Zoning With Hardware Assist (Mixed-Port And Wwn Zones); Session-Based Hard Zoning - HP AE370A - Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch 4/12 Administrator's Manual

Figure 24

Hardware-enforced overlapping zones

Any zone using both WWNs and
authentication as well as hardware-assisted (ASIC) authentication, which ensures that any
PLOGI/ADISC/PDISC/ACC from an unauthorized device attempting to access a device it is not zoned
with is rejected. 2 Gbit/sec switches always deploy the hardware assist, in any zone configuration (see
Figure 25 and
Figure 25

Zoning with hardware assist (mixed-port and WWN zones)

Figure 26

Session-based hard Zoning

In Figure 26, only the ports that are overlapped are software-enforced with hardware assist.
350 Administering Advanced Zoning
Port_Zone1
Port_Zone2
domain, port
Figure 26).
Port_WWN
Zone1
Port_WWN
Zone2
Port_Zone1
WWN_Zone1
Core
Switch
Zone Boundaries
entries on the 2 Gbit/sec platform relies on Name Server
Core
Switch
Zone Boundaries
Core
WWN_Zone2
Switch
Zone Boundaries
WWN_Zone1
WWN_Zone2
22.3b(13.3)
Port_WWN
Zone3
Port_WWN
Zone4
22.4b(13.4)
Port_Zone2
22.5b(13.5)