OEM MANUAL:K6602771
3 FIBRE CHANNEL INTERFACE
Revision: 2 / Date: 2002.12.19
Page: 74 / 313
3.5.12
FABRIC ADDRESS NOTIFICATION(FAN)
The Fabric Address Notification (FAN) is sent by the Fabric F_Port to all known
previously logged in (FLOGI) and attached ports following an initialization event.
This controller does not reject this link service, but it has no response. This
controller perform FLOGI if FAN indicates change or timeout after receiving FAN
(Refer to Figure 3-11).
The Table 3-41 shows the payload of the FAN.
Table 3-41 FAN Payload
Bit
Byte
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
0
Link Service Command Code
0
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
3
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
4
Reserved
5
Loop Fabric Address
(MSB)
6
7
(LSB)
8
Fabric_Port_Name
(MSB)
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
(LSB)
(cont’d)