DELL N3000 User Manual

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Configuring Data Center Bridging Features
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the willing parameter is disabled on auto-downstream. By default, auto-
downstream ports have the recommendation TLV parameter enabled. Auto-
downstream ports that receive internally propagated information ignore their 
local configuration and utilize the internally propagated information. Auto-
downstream ports propagate PFC, ETS, and application priority information 
received from the configuration source.
In the Configuration Source role, the port has been manually selected to be 
the configuration source. Configuration received over this port is propagated 
to the other auto configuration ports, however, no automatic election of a 
new configuration source port is allowed. Events that cause selection of a new 
configuration source are ignored. The configuration received over the 
configuration source port is maintained until cleared by the operator (set the 
port to the manual role). 
Since it is not possible to configure the port role for a port-channel, it is 
recommended that the individual links have an identical port role configured 
on all links in the port-channel (auto-up or auto-down). Since only one port 
in the system can be configured as the configuration source, configuring 
interfaces as auto-up is a preferable alternative to a config-source setting.
Configuration Source Port Selection Process
When an auto-upstream or auto-downstream port receives a configuration 
from a peer, the DCBx client first checks if there is an active configuration 
source. If there is a configuration source already selected, the received 
configuration is checked against the local port operational values as received 
from the configuration source, and if compatible, the client marks the port as 
operationally enabled. If the configuration received from the peer is 
determined to not be compatible, a message is logged, an error counter is 
incremented and the DCBx clients become operationally disabled on the 
port. Operationally disabled means that PFC will not operate over the port. 
The port continues to keep link up and exchanges DCBx packets. If a 
compatible configuration is later received, the DCBx clients will become 
operationally enabled.
If there is no configuration source, a port may elect itself as the configuration 
source on a first-come, first-serve basis from the set of eligible ports. A port is 
eligible to become the configuration source if the following conditions are 
true:
• No other port is the configuration source.