Cisco MDS 9000 Series FCoE Configuration Guide

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Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) allows Fibre Channel traffic to be encapsulated over a physical Ethernet link. FCoE and FIP frames use a unique EtherType so that FCoE traffic and standard Ethernet traffic can be carried on the same link.

Classic Ethernet is a best-effort protocol, which means that in a congested network, Ethernet discards packets and relies on higher level protocols to provide retransmission and other reliability mechanisms.

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MDS 9000 NX-OS Software Release 7.3