Fibre Channel Frame

In computer networking, a Fibre Channel frame is the frame of the Fibre Channel protocol.The basic building blocks of an FC connection are the Frames. The Frames contain the information to be transmitted (Payload), the address of the source and destination ports and link control information. Frames are broadly categorized as

  • Data frames
  • Link_control frames

Data frames may be used as Link_Data frames and Device_Data frames, link control frames are classified as Acknowledge (ACK) and Link_Response (Busy and Reject) frames. The primary function of the Fabric is, to receive the Frames from the source port and route them to the destination port. It is the FC-2 layer's responsibility to break the data to be transmitted into Frame size, and reassemble the Frames.

Each Frame begins and ends with a Frame Delimiter . The Frame Header immediately follows the SOF delimiter. The Frame Header is used to control link applications, control device protocol transfers, and detect missing or out of order Frames. An optional header may contain further link control information. A maximum 2112 byte long field (payload) contains the information to be transferred from a source N_Port to a destination N_Port. The 4 bytes Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) precedes the EOF delimiter. The CRC is used to detect transmission errors.

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