PFC - Show / manipulate PFC TLV configuration
Contents
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.
Description
The PFC TLV is used to display and set current PFC TLV attributes.
Example & Usage
Enable PFC for priorities 1, 2, and 4 on eth2lldptool-T-ieth2-VPFCenabled=1,2,4
Disable PFC for all priorities on eth2lldptool-T-ieth2-VPFCenabled=none
Display configuration of PFC enabled priorities for eth2lldptool-t-ieth2-VPFC-cenabled
Display last transmitted PFC TLV on eth2lldptool-t-ieth2-VPFCName
PFC - Show / manipulate PFC TLV configuration
Notes
See Also
lldptool(8), lldpad(8)
Source
o IEEE 802.1Qaz (http://www.ieee802.org/1/pages/dcbridges.html)
Synopsis
lldptool-t-iethx-VPFC[-c[enableTx|willing|enabled|delay]]lldptool-T-iethx-VPFC <CONFIG_ARG=value...>
CONFIG_ARG:=
enableTx=<yes|no>
willing=<yes|no|0|1>
enabled=<none|[0..7],[0..7],...>
delay=<integer value>
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.
