EXFO FTB-1, User Manual

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Test Setup - Test Configurator, Timer, and System
NetBlazer
143
Fibre Channel
Fibre Channel
From the
Test
menu, tap
Setup
,
Test Configurator
, and the
Fibre Channel
block.
World Wide Name (WWN)
The following WWN settings are only available when the Login - Enable
check box is selected (see page 144).

Source allows to set the 64-bit WWN address of the local fibre channel
port:
00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
to
FF-FF-FF-FF-FF-FF-FF-FF
(default is
20-00-00-03-01 [IEEE-MAC lsb (bits 23..0)).

Destination
allows to set the 64-bit WWN address of the remote fibre
channel port: 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 (default) to
FF-FF-FF-FF-FF-FF-FF-FF
. The destination WWN address is displayed
and grayed-out for Point-to-Point topology after a successful login.
Buffer to Buffer Flow Control
Buffer to Buffer (BB) Flow Control, also called Flow Control Management,
manages the control of data traffic between the local and remote fibre
channel ports based on the network, distance, and traffic congestion.
Each remote port advertises the buffer size (
BB_Credit)
during the login.

Enable check box when selected allows to set or use buffers to receive
frames. The
Enable
check box is force selected when the
Login -
Enable check box is selected (see page 144).

Available BB_Credit
is the number of frame buffers that the remote
port has available to receive frames from the local port: 1 to 65535
(default is
10
). The
Available BB_Credit
is not editable when the
Login - Enable check box is selected but its value received from the
remote interface through the login process is displayed. If the login
fails, the
Available BB_Credit displays “–”.