Question:What method does FCIP use to transport Fibre Channel SAN data?

FCIP (Fibre Channel over IP) is a protocol used to connect Fibre Channel SANs across geographically dispersed locations over IP networks. It does this byencapsulating Fibre Channel frames into IP packets(Layer 3). This allows FC SAN traffic to be transmitted across IP-based WANs.

Ethernet networks(Layer 2) are not involved in the FCIP encapsulation process directly because FCIP uses IP packets.

Splitting LAN/SAN datais not the method used; FCIP encapsulatesall FC frames.

Separating LAN and SAN dataalso does not describe the tunneling function.