Data Center Bridging?

Eggert, Lars lars at netapp.com
Wed Feb 6 10:32:39 UTC 2013


Hi Jack,

On Jan 22, 2013, at 19:23, Jack Vogel <jfvogel at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have never implemented this in the FreeBSD drivers primarily because the
> motivation for it say, in Linux,
> was to handle multiple traffic classes, for instance FCOE or iSCSI, but
> FreeBSD has not had these features
> to implement this for.  Give me a reason to do it, and I can see about
> adding it :)

I'm interested in seeing if DCB can be used for lossless IP communication over a simple and private LAN fabric. I have some student cycles that I can direct at helping with the implementation, if that's useful?

Lars


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