Oracle Solaris supports the IEEE 802.1qaz Data Center Bridging Exchange (DCBX) specification and also the pre-standard Converged Enhanced Ethernet (CEE) DCBX specification v1.01 to enable interoperation with a larger set of switches when using Data Center Bridging (DCB).
You can set the DCB mode of operation by changing the value of the dcbx-version property on Oracle Solaris. The dcbx-version set by the lldpadm command conforms to the standards of FCoE CEE switches. You can use the following command to change the mode of operation:
# lldpadm set-agentprop -p dcbx-version=DCBX-mode net0
DCBX-mode can be one of the following values:
auto – Transfers IEEE packets by default. However, when the host receives CEE packets from the peer, the mode switches to CEE automatically.
ieee – Uses the IEEE protocol to exchange information.
cee – Uses the CEE protocol to exchange information.
For more information about CEE-DCBX, see Chapter 7, Managing Converged Networks by Using Data Center Bridging in Managing Network Datalinks in Oracle Solaris 11.3.
In Oracle Solaris, you can use any of the following configuration options to work with FCoE switches: