
– PFC enabled or disabled
– No bandwidth limit or no ETS processing
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ETS uses the DCB MIB IEEE 802.1azd2.5.
Data Center Bridging Exchange Protocol (DCBx)
The data center bridging exchange (DCBx) protocol is disabled by default on the S4810; ETS is also disabled.
DCBx allows a switch to automatically discover DCB-enabled peers and exchange configuration information. PFC and ETS use DCBx
to exchange and negotiate parameters with peer devices. DCBx capabilities include:
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Discovery of DCB capabilities on peer-device connections.
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Determination of possible mismatch in DCB configuration on a peer link.
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Configuration of a peer device over a DCB link.
DCBx requires the link layer discovery protocol (LLDP) to provide the path to exchange DCB parameters with peer devices.
Exchanged parameters are sent in organizationally specific TLVs in LLDP data units. The following LLDP TLVs are supported for DCB
parameter exchange:
PFC parameters
PFC Configuration TLV and Application Priority Configuration TLV.
ETS parameters
ETS Configuration TLV and ETS Recommendation TLV.
Data Center Bridging in a Traffic Flow
The following figure shows how DCB handles a traffic flow on an interface.
Figure 34. DCB PFC and ETS Traffic Handling
Enabling Data Center Bridging
DCB is automatically configured when you configure FCoE or iSCSI optimization.
Data center bridging supports converged enhanced Ethernet (CEE) in a data center network. DCB is disabled by default. It must be
enabled to support CEE.
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Priority-based flow control
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Enhanced transmission selection
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Data Center Bridging (DCB)
Summary of Contents for S4048-ON
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Page 146: ...Figure 14 BFD Three Way Handshake State Changes 146 Bidirectional Forwarding Detection BFD ...
Page 522: ...Figure 87 Configuring Interfaces for MSDP 522 Multicast Source Discovery Protocol MSDP ...
Page 523: ...Figure 88 Configuring OSPF and BGP for MSDP Multicast Source Discovery Protocol MSDP 523 ...
Page 528: ...Figure 91 MSDP Default Peer Scenario 1 528 Multicast Source Discovery Protocol MSDP ...
Page 529: ...Figure 92 MSDP Default Peer Scenario 2 Multicast Source Discovery Protocol MSDP 529 ...
Page 530: ...Figure 93 MSDP Default Peer Scenario 3 530 Multicast Source Discovery Protocol MSDP ...
Page 633: ...Policy based Routing PBR 633 ...
Page 777: ...Figure 119 Single and Double Tag TPID Match Service Provider Bridging 777 ...
Page 778: ...Figure 120 Single and Double Tag First byte TPID Match 778 Service Provider Bridging ...