Data Center Bridging?

[Eggert, Lars]

Hi,

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 :)

well, my motivation for asking was that I'll soon have some students investigate various options for low-latency reliable communication over a private fabric. DCB is one candidate.

On Jan 22, 2013, at 19:49, Navdeep Parhar <nparhar at gmail.com> wrote:
> cxgbe(4) hardware supports DCB/DCBX, but I haven't looked at what it
> would take to add driver + OS support.

Driver support for either Intel or Chelsio NICs would be great!

Lars