On 7/12/11 9:30 PM, Subranshu Patel - ERS, HCL Tech wrote:
I have 2 Linux machines.
- The first Linux machine will be the FCoE initiator (using open-fcoe)
- The second Linux machine will be the FCoe target (using FCST, which is SCST
based)
- 10 Gbps peer to peer Ethernet connection between the 2 machines
- No FCoE switch is used
1. Please let me know, if the above environment is fine for FCoE?
2. Since FCoE switch will not be used, will the target perform the
de-encapsulation i.e. separate FC frame from the Ethernet frame?
I would recommend using point-to-multipoint (also known as VN2VN) mode
of FIP to connect the two machines.
To start a point-to-point FCoE session, you would use fcc.sh from
fcoe-utils/contrib
by doing:
fcc.sh create-vn ethXX
on both machines. I'm not sure that still works, but it did last November.
You say you are not using and FCoE switch, and this will work, except
I would also recommend not using any switch at all, and connecting the
two machines directly. Otherwise you'll have problems due to incomplete
flow control implementations (pause) in the switches.
Good luck,
Joe
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