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This chapter describes the Cisco NX-OS Fibre Channel, virtual Fibre Channel, and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) commands that begin with B.
To bind an interface to a virtual Fibre Channel interface, use the bind command. To remove the binding of an interface, use the no form of this command.
bind interface { ethernet chassis-id / slot / port | port-channel channel-no | vethernet veth-num }
no bind interface { ethernet chassis-id / slot / port | port-channel channel-no | vethernet veth-num }
Virtual Fibre Channel interface configuration mode
The Ethernet or EtherChannel interface that you bind to the virtual Fibre Channel interface must be a trunk port.
Before you bind a virtual Fibre Channel interface to a virtual Ethernet interface, you must enable the Cisco Adapter Fabric Extender (Adapter-FEX) on the switch by using the feature-set virtualization command.
This example shows how to bind a virtual Fibre Channel interface 3 to an Ethernet interface:
This example shows how to bind a virtual Fibre Channel interface 2 to a virtual Ethernet interface:
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Displays the specified VFC interface, attributes, and status. |
To bind a virtual Fibre Channel interface to a MAC address, use the bind mac-address command. To remove the binding of an interface, use the no form of this command.
no bind mac-address mac-address
Virtual Fibre Channel interface configuration mode
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Before you use this command, make sure you enable Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) N-Port Virtualizer (NPV) on the switch by using the feature fcoe-npv command.
This example shows how to bind a virtual Fibre Channel interface 3 to a MAC address:
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Displays the specified VFC interface, attributes, and status. |