How do i set up a Fibre Channel HBA adapter as a network device?
How do i use an HBA adapter as a network device? I want to connect one HBA adapter on one machine to the HBA adapter on another machine and use them like a traditional network device
My type of HBA adapter seems to be working. It appears as an Emulex LPe15000/LPe16000 device in “lspci”.
And i have all the fibre channel data listed in /sys/class like described in this redhat article https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/managing_storage_devices/using-fibre-channel-devices_managing-storage-devices
But i would like to connect from one card to another as a simple network interface. So i can use scp, samba, etc. I want it to appear in “ip addr” command
This is the hardware product: IBM 00RY004 2-Port 16Gb Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter Network Card. But it seems like the firmware on it is Emulex. And i have two of these cards, on two different machine, connected with a single fibre cable. I could also buy a central “router” or switch if something unknown needs to be between them but I dont know what that would be.
How do i use it as a simple network interface?