On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 8:25 AM, Manoj Wadekar <[email protected]> wrote: > Two interesting follow-up points: > 1. DCB Protocols: In case of OpenFlow - does one need pt-pt protocol like > DCBX to achieve "lossless" priority negotiated in the path or OpenFlow will > programmatically achieve same results?
While I'm not a DCBX expert, you could imagine using OpenFlow to steer traffic onto dedicated physical links or queues (virtual links) that ensured lossless priority. > 2. FCoE functionality in switches/adapters: What extensions are supported by > OpenFlow for this? I was saying that someone *could* implement this as an extension, but to the best of my knowledge, people have only talked about doing it and not actually acted on it. Hope this helps, - Rob . _______________________________________________ openflow-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/openflow-discuss
