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Appendixes
Appendix A Fabric address assignment
Table 10 Fabric address assignment
FC_ID
Descri
tion
0x000000
Undefined (when an N_Port uses FLOGI to request for an address, an
all-zero FC ID is used).
0x000001–0x00FFFF Reserved.
0x010000–0xEFFFFF N_Port address.
0xF00000–0xFFF9FF Reserved.
0xFFFA00–0xFFFA0F Reserved for internal loopback.
0xFFFA10–0xFFFA1F Reserved for external loopback.
0xFFFA20–0xFFFAFF Reserved.
0xFFFB00–0xFFFBFF Reserved for multicast.
0xFFFC00 Reserved.
0xFFFC01–0xFFFCEF Domain controller addresses.
0xFFFCF0–0xFFFFEF Reserved.
0xFFFFF0–0xFFFFFC Well-known addresses.
0xFFFFFD Fabric controller address, representing all E_Ports.
0xFFFFFE F_Port controller address, representing all F_Ports.
0xFFFFFF Broadcast address.
Appendix B Well-known fabric addresses
Table 11 Purposes of well-known fabric addresses
FC_ID Descri
tion
0xFFFFF0 N_Port controller, representing all N_Ports.
0xFFFFF1–0xFFFFF3 Reserved.
0xFFFFF4 Event services.
0xFFFFF5 Multicast server.
0xFFFFF6 Clock synchronization services.
0xFFFFF7 Security key distribution services.
0xFFFFF8 Alias services.