RFC 4172: iFCP - A Protocol for Internet Fibre Channel Storage Networking

This document specifies an architecture and a gateway-to-gateway protocol for the implementation of fibre channel fabric functionality over an IP network.…

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Outgoing relationships (29 related RFCs)

Normative reference — RFC 2119: Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels
Normative reference — RFC 793: Transmission Control Protocol
Normative reference — RFC 2401: Security Architecture for the Internet Protocol
Normative reference — RFC 2409: The Internet Key Exchange (IKE)
Normative reference — RFC 2406: IP Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP)
Normative reference — RFC 2402: IP Authentication Header
Normative reference — RFC 2407: The Internet IP Security Domain of Interpretation for ISAKMP
Normative reference — RFC 2408: Internet Security Association and Key Management Protocol (ISAKMP)
Normative reference — RFC 2404: The Use of HMAC-SHA-1-96 within ESP and AH
Normative reference — RFC 2451: The ESP CBC-Mode Cipher Algorithms
Normative reference — RFC 3686: Using Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) Counter Mode With IPsec Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP)
Normative reference — RFC 3566: The AES-XCBC-MAC-96 Algorithm and Its Use With IPsec
Normative reference — RFC 2410: The NULL Encryption Algorithm and Its Use With IPsec
Normative reference — RFC 3723: Securing Block Storage Protocols over IP
Normative reference — RFC 3643: Fibre Channel (FC) Frame Encapsulation
Normative reference — RFC 4171: Internet Storage Name Service (iSNS)
Informative reference — RFC 1122: Requirements for Internet Hosts - Communication Layers
Informative reference — RFC 3031: Multiprotocol Label Switching Architecture
Informative reference — RFC 2475: An Architecture for Differentiated Services
Informative reference — RFC 1323: TCP Extensions for High Performance
Informative reference — RFC 3270: Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) Support of Differentiated Services
Informative reference — RFC 1633: Integrated Services in the Internet Architecture: an Overview
Informative reference — RFC 896: Congestion Control in IP/TCP Internetworks
Informative reference — RFC 3260: New Terminology and Clarifications for Diffserv
Informative reference — RFC 2923: TCP Problems with Path MTU Discovery
Informative reference — RFC 2030: Simple Network Time Protocol (SNTP) Version 4 for IPv4, IPv6 and OSI
Informative reference — RFC 2405: The ESP DES-CBC Cipher Algorithm With Explicit IV
Informative reference — RFC 2625: IP and ARP over Fibre Channel
Informative reference — RFC 2709: Security Model with Tunnel-mode IPsec for NAT Domains

Incoming relationships (3 related RFCs)

Updated by, Normatively referenced by — RFC 7146: Securing Block Storage Protocols over IP: RFC 3723 Requirements Update for IPsec v3
Updated by — RFC 6172: Deprecation of the Internet Fibre Channel Protocol (iFCP) Address Translation Mode
Normatively referenced by — RFC 4171: Internet Storage Name Service (iSNS)