On 2/8/11 4:14 PM, 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.
Also, you need a loss-free fabric, so a point-to-point link between two systems
with pause, or a switched fabric that honors pause end-to-end.
Regards,
Joe
-----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
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