01-12-2009
Yes, it is possible with seperate VLAN's (but not with etherchannel). Research VIPA. You'll need to enable OSPF on the VLAN's and on your host. This works, but can be confusing and difficult to maintain.
The preffered option, however, is what was stated above. Put them all on the same VLAN and use etherchannel/link aggregation.
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
fipvlan
FIPVLAN(8) Open-FCoE Tools FIPVLAN(8)
NAME
fipvlan - Fibre Channel over Ethernet VLAN Discovery
SYNOPSIS
fipvlan [-c|--create] [-s|--start] interfaces
fipvlan -a|--auto [-c|--create] [-d|--debug] [-s|--start] [-l|--link-retry <num>]
fipvlan -h|--help
fipvlan -v|--version
DESCRIPTION
The fipvlan command performs Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) Initialization Protocol (FIP) VLAN Discovery over Ethernet interfaces.
fipvlan can be used as a diagnostic tool to determine which VLANs have FCoE services available on a network, prior to configuring VLAN
interfaces and the Open-FCoE initiator. fipvlan can also be used to create VLAN interfaces as they are discovered, and to start the
Open-FCoE initiator. The --create and --start options are primarily intended to be used as part of an Open-FCoE boot solution. FCoE
instances started in this way cannot be destroyed or reset by fcoeadm.
fipvlan takes a list of network interface names to run the VLAN discovery protocol over, or the --auto option to use all available Ethernet
interfaces.
fipvlan will enable any interface which is found to be not enabled by the time the program runs. If no response is received on that
interface it will be shutdown again when fipvlan terminates.
OPTIONS
-a, --auto
Use all Ethernet interfaces currently available
-c, --create
Create network interfaces for discovered FCoE VLANs. If a VLAN device already exists for a discovered VLAN, a new VLAN device will not
be created.
-d, --debug
Enable debugging output
-s, --start
Start the Open-FCoE initiator on discovered FCoE VLANs
-f, --suffix <suffix string>
Append the specified string <suffix string> to VLAN interface names.
-l, --link-retry <number of retries>
Retry check for link up up to <number of retries> times. The link state is retried every 500 ms. The default is 20.
-h, --help
Display a help message with basic usage instructions
-v, --version
Display the fipvlan version string
VLAN NAMING CONVENTIONS
The default VLAN device name is dev.vlan; where dev is the name of the Ethernet parent device and vlan is the discovered VLAN ID number. An
optional suffix can be appended to this with -f commandline option.
EXAMPLES
Display all discoverable VLANs with FCoE services
fipvlan --auto
Discover FCoE VLANs on interface eth2, create VLAN devices and start the Open-FCoE initiator
fipvlan --create --start eth2
In this example if FCoE services were available on VLAN 101 of network interface eth2, then a VLAN interface eth2.101-fcoe would be created
and used as the parent device for the initiator.
SEE ALSO
fcoeadm(8) fcoemon(8)
SUPPORT
fipvlan is part of the fcoe-utils package, maintained through the Open-FCoE project. Resources for both developers and users can be found
at the Open-FCoE website http://open-fcoe.org/
Open-FCoE 10/06/2011 FIPVLAN(8)