Data Center Bridging?

[Jim Thompson]

On Jan 22, 2013, at 10:32 AM, Julian Elischer <julian at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 1/22/13 8:43 AM, Eggert, Lars wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> on Linux, various NICs (e.g., ixgbe) support Data Center Bridging. Is this also available under FreeBSD? Do *any* NICs support DCB under FreeBSD?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Lars
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> that really depends on what you want to do
> given a freebsd command line and a kernel with the right options I could probably bridge two networks in about 15 minutes.
> (I have done it in the past).
> if DCB is a specific protocol then we may need to do some work to support it. as I've not heard of it.

DCB is yet another attempt to 'fix' Ethernet, by eliminating queue overflow and providing bandwidth allocation on individual links.
It was intended to be mostly about storage.

Linux uses lldpad and dcbtool to manage the settings.

Jim