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
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