Authentication Of Vex_Port-To-Vex_Port Connections; Fcr Santegrity; Table 66 Vex_Port-To-Ve_Port Authentication Policy With Correct Secrets; Table 67 Vex_ Port-To-Ve_Port Authentication Policy When Secrets Are Not Correct - Brocade Communications Systems 1606 Administrator's Manual

TABLE 66
Fabric OS switch
VEX_Port-to-VE_Port
Passive
TABLE 67
Fabric OS switch
VEX_Port-to-VE_Port
Passive

Authentication of VEX_Port-to-VEX_Port connections

Connecting VEX_Ports to each other is not relevant for authentication, because both ports will
always operate in Passive mode. Because ports in Passive mode do not initiate authentication,
VEX_Ports cannot have an authenticated connection between them.

FCR SANtegrity

FC-FC Routing (FCR) SANtegrity is supported for Fabric Binding when EX_Ports are attached to a
McDATA edge switch. Fabric Binding lets you configure a Fabric Binding Membership list that each
switch in a fabric can use to validate between it and its neighbor. McDATA SANtegrity Fabric Binding
uses a list made up of domain ID and WWN pairs and implies the use of Insistent Domain IDs.
When Fabric Binding is enabled, a Fabric Binding check is performed each time a link is enabled to
ensure that the switches can connect. If the binding check fails, the McDATA port goes to an invalid
attachment state and the EX_Port disables itself.
NOTE
After a Fabric Binding check failure between a McDATA E_Port and an EX_Port, the current M-EOS
implementation requires you to disable the M-EOS port and then re-enable it before the link can
come up again. Enabling just the EX_Port does not always allow the link to come up again.
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VEX_Port-to-VE_Port authentication policy with correct secrets
Passive
Yes
Connected without
any authentication
(Fabric builds
normally).
VEX_ Port-to-VE_Port authentication policy when secrets are not correct
Passive
Yes
Connected without
any authentication
(Fabric builds
normally).
Active On
Yes! Yes!
Connected with Connected with
two-way two-way
authentication; both authentication; both
sides of the sides of the
connection perform connection perform
Authentication (Fabric Authentication (Fabric
builds normally). builds normally).
Active On
No No
E_Port does not E_Port does not
connect connect
(Authentication (Authentication
Rejected). When the Rejected). When the
Fabric OS switch Fabric OS switch
generates the reject, generates the reject,
it disables the Fabric it disables the Fabric
OS port. When the OS port. When the
M-EOS switch M-EOS switch
generates the reject, generates the reject,
it goes to an invalid it goes to an invalid
attachment state. attachment state.
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FCR SANtegrity

Off
Yes
Connected without
any authentication
(Fabric builds
normally).
Off
Yes
Connected
without any
authentication
(Fabric builds
normally).
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