NAME¶

PFC - Show / manipulate PFC TLV configuration

SYNOPSIS¶

lldptool -t -i ethx -V PFC [ -c [ enableTx | willing | enabled | delay ] ]

lldptool -T -i ethx -V PFC <CONFIG_ARG=value ...>

CONFIG_ARG:=

enableTx=<yes|no>

willing=<yes|no|0|1>

enabled=<none|[0..7],[0..7],...>

delay=<integer value>

DESCRIPTION¶

The PFC TLV is used to display and set current PFC TLV attributes.

ARGUMENTS¶

enableTx

Enable the PFC TLV to be transmitted in the LLDP PDU for the specified interface.

willing

Display or set the willing attribute. If set to yes and a peer TLV is received then the peer PFC attributes will be used. If set to no then locally configured attributes are used.

enabled

Display or set the priorities with PFC enabled. The set attribute takes a comma separated list of priorities to enable, or the string none to disable all priorities.

delay

Display or set the delay attribute used to configure PFC thresholds in hardware buffers. If PFC is enabled and frames continue to be dropped due to full hardware buffers then increasing this value may help.

Theory of Operations¶

The PFC TLV uses the Symmetric attribute passing state machine defined in IEEE 802.1Qaz. This means the attributes used will depend on the willing bit. If the willing bit is set to 1 and a peer TLV is received then the peers attributes will be used. If the willing bit is set to 0 the local attributes will be used. When both the peer and local configuration are willing a tie breaking scheme is used. For more detailed coverage see the specification.

EXAMPLE & USAGE¶

Enable PFC for priorities 1, 2, and 4 on eth2

lldptool -T -i eth2 -V PFC enabled=1,2,4

Disable PFC for all priorities on eth2

lldptool -T -i eth2 -V PFC enabled=none

Display configuration of PFC enabled priorities for eth2

lldptool -t -i eth2 -V PFC -c enabled

Display last transmitted PFC TLV on eth2

lldptool -t -i eth2 -V PFC

SOURCE¶

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IEEE 802.1Qaz (http://www.ieee802.org/1/pages/dcbridges.html)

NOTES¶

SEE ALSO¶

lldptool(8), lldpad(8)

AUTHOR¶

John Fastabend