Thanks for your help. I'm trying to get vn2vn mode working so no FCF involved. I'll try out your suggestions. So far I haven't tried using VLAN but I can set it up that way if needed.
Steve > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Brown [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2012 5:14 PM > To: Clark, Steven > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [ipxe-devel] [Patch] Add fcoestat command > > On Wednesday 27 Jun 2012 19:53:30 Clark, Steven wrote: > > The problem I'm chasing right now is that I get fcoe ports but no fc ports. > > Since they are not 1:1 I found it helpful to dump some status. > > OK. It sounds as though you're having problems with FIP. Useful things to > try would be to build with DEBUG=fcoe and (if possible) to try capturing the > traffic. Capturing traffic might be difficult given that FCoE tends to use > VLANs. > > iPXE will use FIP VLAN discovery to detect an FCoE VLAN. You can see if any > VLAN devices have been created via "ifstat". Once a VLAN has been discovered > (or VLAN discovery has timed out), iPXE will use FIP to detect an FCF. The FC > device (visible via "fcstat") will be created only once a FCF has been > detected (or FCF detection has timed out). > > Common problems with iPXE FCoE are: > > a) NIC drivers that don't strip the Ethernet CRC from the received packet: > this doesn't affect TCP or UDP but will break FCoE > > b) NIC drivers that don't enable promiscuous mode > > Michael _______________________________________________ ipxe-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ipxe.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/ipxe-devel
