Thank You Robert. -C
On Tue, 2011-02-08 at 16:14 -0800, Love, Robert W wrote: > Hi Christopher, > > Yes, FCoE works just fine with a standard NIC and this project, > "Open-FCoE" supports that mode. Keep in mind that with FCoE you're probably > connecting to an existing FC fabric, so you'd need that in place, unless > you're doing a point-to-point connection. Also, you need a switch, often > referred to as a FCF (Fibre Channel Forwarder) to encapsulate and unpack FCoE > frames as they are send in and out of the fabric. > > Hope this helps, > > //Rob > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Christopher Barry > Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2011 4:03 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Open-FCoE] probably an obvious question, but... > > Greetings, > > Can FCoE be used with a standard NIC, like iSCSI, or must one use a > specialized FCoE enabled device? If the latter is currently true, is > there work underway to use standard NICs for this technology? > > Thanks, > -C > > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.open-fcoe.org/mailman/listinfo/devel _______________________________________________ devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.open-fcoe.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
