Hi Prashant,

http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid5_gci834321,00.html

Check the link above for a good overview on iFCP (Internet Fibre Channel Protocol).

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-----Original Message----- From: Prashant Desai [mailto:pressy_sun@yahoo.com] Sent: Monday, 8 December 2003 11:49 PM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: difference between iFCP/FCIP/ iSCSI/FCP

Hi all i am a newbie to storage industry but would like to change my newbie lable , i was going through a doc but got confused with following emerging technologies and protocols

can some one explain me whats the difference between 1) FCP 2) iscsi 3) FC/IP and 4) iFCP

as per my understand FCP and ISCSI is a replacement of each other means FCP works by encapsulating scsi in to the fiber channel where as iscsi works by encapsulating scsi into IP

i also understands that FC/IP is used to bridge multiple SAN's which are geographically saperated using a traditional IP network by encapsulating fiber channel frames within TCP ,

but please let me know what iFCP its function , and i am very intrested in knowing is it possible to replace any of these protocols with the other one ? i mean do they provide options for each other ? or for some other purpose ?

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