When a Spirent TestCenter VN_Port’s SubState reaches FLOGI (or FDISC) accepted (even though it does not ever reach the PLOGI accepted substate) should we expect keepalives to start being sent?

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Answer

Yes, as per the FIP state machine,

on Discovery complete, the Enode MAC starts sending the Keepalives – the first type of keepalive which is sent at the FKA_ADV interval, and
on Flogi or FDisc accept, the VN port MAC starts sending Keepalives – the second type of keepalive which is sent every 90 seconds.

Version 4.0

Publish Date 2012-04-30

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