#routing Articles


  • 2013-04-19
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Studying for BCNE - Brocade Certified Network Engineer

In early April of 2013 Brocade had a great offer - ask for it and you'll get a voucher to an exam - for free! I took them up on their offer and scored a voucher for the BCNE (Brocade Certified Network Engineer). After that I noticed that Brocade also has a …

  • 2012-06-13
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Red Hat Certification – RHCE - Course Outline

Howdy! In case you saw my previous posts I've been prepping for a RHCE course the last couple of weeks. Here are the posts based on the objectives: http/https dns ftp nfs smb smtp ssh ntp Odds are quite high that I've missed something or not gone deep enough …

BCFD – CFD200 – Module 6 – FC Routing and Distance Extension

Second Last module! But that's not the end of it, there are more admin guides, best practices to wade through :) This one is a bit more complicated though, a lot to think about when designing FCR and FCIP SAN networks. FC Routing This is when you have SAN islands (isolated …

BCFP - FCIP - Fibre Channel over TCP/IP

Still studying for Brocade's BCFP Exam. This post is to try to put light on some of the terms/technologies you'll be surrounded by when learning about FCIP. Guides you should see are the "Fabric OS FCIP Administrator's Guide" and you should probably start with the material for BCFP - part …

BCFP - Fibre Channel Routing - FCR - FC-FC Routing

FCR; Fibre Channel Routing; FC-FC Routing; etc; etc. This has many names. FC-FC Routing service provides FCR (fibre channel routing). Basically what it does is that it lets you zone devices in two separate fabrics without merging them. These two separate fabrics are called 'edge fabrics' in Brocade lingo, they …