Intel Announces Open Fibre Channel Over Ethernet

sofar writes "Intel has just announced and released source code for their Open-FCoE project, which creates a transport allowing native Fibre Channel frames to travel over ordinary ethernet cables to any Linux system. This extremely interesting development will mean that data centers can lower costs and maintenance by reducing the amount of Fibre Channel equipment and cabling while still enjoying its benefits and performance. The new standard is backed by Cisco, Sun, IBM, EMC, Emulex, and a variety of others working in the storage field. The timing of this announcement comes as no surprise given the uptake of 10-Gb Ethernet in the data center."

Fiber channel

[smittyoneeach]

Fiber channel
In ye olde patch panel
Beats fiber thin
On your chinny-chin-chin
Burma Shave

Re:Bumper cars.

[morgan_greywolf]

Oh this should be interesting. Fibre over a collision-and hold-off architecture.

They have this newfanged technology. It's called switched Ethernet! It's amazing! With switched Ethernet, you get no collisions!

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:0D:03:01:04
                    inet addr:192.168.1.100 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
                    inet6 addr: fe80::000:00f0:0043:0084/64 Scope:Link
                    UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
                    RX packets:1781638 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
                    TX packets:1651683 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
                    collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
                    RX bytes:803882935 (766.6 MiB) TX bytes:333706343 (318.2 MiB)
                    Interrupt:18 Base address:0xd800


(address details fudged only)

Re:I'm more interested in AoE

[Hal_Porter]

You should give it a snappier name like Serial ATA Networking, or SATAN. Lots of interesting logo possibilities in that, and it'll be funny watching 'technology evangelist' types stutter, sweat and mumble when they give PowerPoint presentations to born again potential customers.

Re:I'm more interested in AoE

[jmpnz]

Then we'd need an option to add High Availability Internetworked Logical-units to Serial ATA Networks.

Re:I'm more interested in AoE

[psydeshow]

FreeBSD is sometimes a tough sell to religious groups because of the devil mascot.

"You want to put... a demon? On our server?"
"Daemon, it's a daemon."
"..."

Re:Bumper cars.

[Gothmolly]

Dude, thats MY IP address !!!!