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Restrictions and Known Issues with Other Devices

When configuring CAM ACL using the cam-acl l2acl 2 ipv4acl 2 ipv6acl 0 ipv4qos 1 l2qos 2 l2pt 0 ipmacacl 0
vman-qos 0 ecfmacl 2 fcoeacl 4 iscsioptacl 0
command and reloading, the system fails due to a limitation in the BCM
SDK 6.3.4.

Connections between an Aggregator and the following devices are not supported:
— Cisco fabric extenders (FEXes): Storage deployments are not supported; LAN deployments are supported.

When an Aggregator interoperates with a Brocade B8000 switch, rebooting the Aggregator results in the B8000 switch
generating more PFC frames, which may result in the failure to establish the iSCSI sessions.

In connections with a server using a Q-LOGIC CNA for converged traffic, a FIP snooping session may flap when
non-standard LAN traffic is transmitted with SAN traffic.

In connections with a server using a Q-LOGIC CNA, FCoE sessions will be cleared when the

keepalive

parameter in

fcoe-map is toggled (disabled and enabled).

In connections with a server using an Intel X520 CNA, the server may fail to boot from the SAN network if a Brocade
CNA is also installed in the server.

If an Intel X520 CNA adapter is used for any DCB connection, follow these steps to establish sessions to send and receive
traffic on an Aggregator:

Step

Task

Command

Mode

1.

On each server-facing port, enter the following commands in interface configuration mode.
The dcbx version cee command configures a port to use the CEE (Intel 1.01) version of DCBX. Configure server-facing ports
with the shutdown and no shutdown commands, as needed. For example:

Dell# interface tenGigabitEthernet 0/1

Dell(conf-if-te-0/1)# protocol lldp

Dell(conf-lldp)# dcbx version cee

Dell(conf-lldp)# exit

Dell(conf-if-te-0/1)# no shutdown

Dell(conf-if-te-0/1)# exit

Dell#

2.

Display information on FIP-snooped sessions and
check the entries in ENode Interface fields to see if
you have established the FCoE session on a
server-facing port.

show fip-snooping sessions

EXEC Privilege

Note: The interface connected to the Intel X520 CNA adapter must be manually shut/no shut for the full

functionality after making the below changes.

To ensure interoperability, the recommended LLDP and LACP timeout values that should be configured in devices to
which the Aggregator connects (such as ToR switch and servers) are:
— LLDP timeout: 30 seconds
— LACP long timeout

When 68-byte frames are sent at line rate to a server, the server-facing LACP connection may flap. This behavior is due to
the server’s inability to send LACP control packets when handling incoming line-rate traffic.

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