Hey Ex-Engineer - Glad you're searching out answers Just for the record, I responded to your PFC thread when you called me and rob burns out specifically Let me know if I can help any more.Liz

Hey Ex-Engineer - You're right, people do have different definitions.  Some of your examples are good to think through:     - Where FLOGIs terminate would be an FCF (hop) -- not a DCB bridge and not a FIP snooping device or NPV device.     - Where a ...

Hey Ex-Engineer - The Nexus 5000 does actually forward FCoE traffic based on FSPF.  As you pointed out -- an FCoE frame is really an FC frame in an FCoE header in another Eth header.  When an FCoE frame comes into the Nexus 5000, it gets de-incapsula...

Hey ex-engineer - So it looks like you got a lot of good information on that last thread. The one thing I would add is that when it comes to virtual output queues (VOQs), there is one for EVERY COS value for EVERY PORT.  meaning if you have the 5548 ...

Hey Ex-engineer - If you think about an FCoE hop like you do a FC hop, it comes down to a "hop" being a device which is capable of performing switching based on FSPF.  This is regardless of being in the FC or FCoE world.  However, in the FCoE world, ...