Re: FC - NPIV in 2.6.23-rc2

From: Matthew Jacob
Date: Thu Aug 30 2007 - 12:47:31 EST


> > some sought of documentation for this, please let me know.
> NPIV is a feature to provide multiple path available on one physical port and it has implemented based on the multiport ID (MID) capability on the switch.
> So, you have to have the switch with MID capable on the configuration to support NPIV, besides the controller.
>

No, if the switch doesn't suport NP-IV, the 24XX f/w will come up in
Public Loop mode (FL).
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