DCB uses PFC TLV units to exchange PFC information between hosts. Either hosts must have the same value for the pfcmap property or at least one host must be willing to accept the configuration of its peer. You can set the pfcmap property by using the dladm set-linkprop command.
The TLV property willing indicates whether the host is ready to accept the peer's configuration if the host configuration differs from the peer's configuration. By default, the property value of willing is set to on, which indicates that the host will accept the peer's configuration.
To verify that the host can synchronize its PFC information with the PFC information on the remote peer, you must determine whether the willing is set to on by using the following command:
# lldpadm show-agenttlvprop -p willing -a agent pfc
If the PFC TLV property willing is set to off, type the following command to set the property willing to on and enable synchronization.
# lldpadm set-agenttlvprop -p willing=on -a agent pfc
Where agent is the datalink on which the agent is enabled.
Example 40 Enabling Synchronization Between the Host and the PeerTo enable synchronization for a net0 datalink, type the following command:
# lldpadm set-agenttlvprop -p willing=on -a net0 pfc # dladm show-linkprop -p pfcmap,pfcmap-rmt net0 LINK PROPERTY PERM VALUE EFFECTIVE DEFAULT POSSIBLE net0 pfcmap rw 11111111 00010000 11111111 00000000-11111111 net0 pfcmap-rmt r- -- 00010000 11111111 --
In the example, the pfcmap and pfcmap-rmt properties have the value 00010000. This indicates that the local host has synchronized with the peer. Hence, PFC is enabled with a priority of 4 on both the host and the peer.
For more information, see the lldpadm(1M) man page.