Hi Andy, Thanks for the information. I am trying to do exactly that. I have installed VMWare and I am trying to send/receive packets.
--- On Wed, 3/9/11, Andy Grover <[email protected]> wrote: From: Andy Grover <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Open-FCoE] FCoE development To: "Robert Love" <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Date: Wednesday, March 9, 2011, 12:51 PM On 02/17/2011 10:39 AM, Robert Love wrote: > Open-FCoE provides FCoE support for any Ethernet adapter, some have > offloads and some don't. You can use lldpad, from open-lldp.org, for the > lossless network, or you can use simple pause if you're not going to do > any converged traffic. The QUICKSTART file in fcoe-uitls should have > some details about lldpad. In the absence of a Fibre Channel fabric and > Fibre Channel Forwarders you can connect a SW initiator with a SW target > using a point-to-point connection. > > So the bottom line is that you can do FCoE with two systems connected > back to back. Hi Rob, sorry to revive an old-ish thread.. Two systems back-to-back, ethtool -a needs to show TX & RX pause enabled for both ends? I'm also interested with experiences doing fcoe development in a VM. Does VM--VM traffic ever result in dropped frames, I wonder? Regards -- Andy _______________________________________________ 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
