NAME
dcbd - Data Center Bridging capabilities exchange daemon
SYNOPSIS
dcbd [-h] [-v] [-d] [-f filename]
DESCRIPTION
Executes the Data Center Bridging (DCB) capabilities exchange protocol
on DCB capable Ethernet interfaces in order to exchange DCB
configuration with the peer device.
Major functions of dcbd include:
- retrieving and storing DCB configuration to a configuration file
- configuring the DCB settings of the network driver based on the
operation of the DCB capabilities exchange protocol
- detecting and reacting to link up and link down events on network
ports
- supporting the following DCB features: Priority Groups, Priority Flow
Control, FCoE and FCoE Logical Link Status.
- providing an interface for client applications to query and configure
DCB features. Events are also generated on the client interface when
the operational state or configuration of a feature changes.
dcbd supports the versions of the DCB capabilities exchange protocol
described here:
version 1
<http://download.intel.com/technology/eedc/dcb_cep_spec.pdf>
and here:
version 2
<http://www.ieee802.org/1/files/public/docs2008/az-wadekar-dcbx-
capability-exchange-discovery-protocol-1108-v1.01.pdf>
See dcbtool for information on how to configure which version of the
protocol dcbd executes.
OPTIONS
dcbd has the following command line options:
-h show usage information
-f filename
use the specified file as the configuration file instead of the
default file: /etc/sysconfig/dcbd/dcbd.conf dcbd expects the
directory of the configuration file to exist, but if the
configuration file does not exist, then a default configuration
file will be created.
-d run dcbd as a daemon
-v show dcbd version
LICENSE
dcbd - DCB daemon
Copyright(c) 2007-2009 Intel Corporation. Portions of dcbd are based
on:
hostapd-0.5.7
Copyright
(c) 2004-2008, Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms and conditions of the GNU General Public License,
version 2, as published by the Free Software Foundation.
This program is distributed in the hope it will be useful, but WITHOUT
ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License
for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
51 Franklin St - Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
The full GNU General Public License is included in this distribution in
the file called "COPYING".
SUPPORT
Contact Information: e1000-eedc Mailing List
<e1000-eedc@lists.sourceforge.net> Intel Corporation, 5200 N.E. Elam
Young Parkway, Hillsboro, OR 97124-6497
June 29, 2009 dcbd(8)