Commit 1d4f8dfe authored by Mauro Carvalho Chehab's avatar Mauro Carvalho Chehab Committed by Martin K. Petersen
parent 6e5a663d
.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
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Operating FCoE using bnx2fc
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Broadcom FCoE offload through bnx2fc is full stateful hardware offload that
......@@ -24,6 +27,7 @@ Driver Usage Model:
2. Configure the interfaces on which bnx2fc driver has to operate on.
Here are the steps to configure:
a. cd /etc/fcoe
b. copy cfg-ethx to cfg-eth5 if FCoE has to be enabled on eth5.
c. Repeat this for all the interfaces where FCoE has to be enabled.
......@@ -39,8 +43,10 @@ discovery and log into the targets.
5. "Symbolic Name" in 'fcoeadm -i' output would display if bnx2fc has claimed
the interface.
Eg:
[root@bh2 ~]# fcoeadm -i
Eg::
[root@bh2 ~]# fcoeadm -i
Description: NetXtreme II BCM57712 10 Gigabit Ethernet
Revision: 01
Manufacturer: Broadcom Corporation
......@@ -60,16 +66,16 @@ Eg:
State: Online
6. Verify the vlan discovery is performed by running ifconfig and notice
<INTERFACE>.<VLAN>-fcoe interfaces are automatically created.
<INTERFACE>.<VLAN>-fcoe interfaces are automatically created.
Refer to fcoeadm manpage for more information on fcoeadm operations to
create/destroy interfaces or to display lun/target information.
NOTE:
NOTE
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** Broadcom FCoE capable devices implement a DCBX/LLDP client on-chip. Only one
LLDP client is allowed per interface. For proper operation all host software
based DCBX/LLDP clients (e.g. lldpad) must be disabled. To disable lldpad on a
given interface, run the following command:
given interface, run the following command::
lldptool set-lldp -i <interface_name> adminStatus=disabled
lldptool set-lldp -i <interface_name> adminStatus=disabled
......@@ -14,5 +14,6 @@ Linux SCSI Subsystem
aic79xx
aic7xxx
bfa
bnx2fc
scsi_transport_srp/figures
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