Dell Configuration Guide for the S4048–ON System 9.14.2.4

Auto-upstream

The port advertises its own configuration to DCBx peers and is willing to receive peer configuration. The port also propagates its configuration to other ports on the switch.

The first auto-upstream that is capable of receiving a peer configuration is elected as the configuration source. The elected configuration source then internally propagates the configuration to other auto-upstream and auto-downstream ports. A port that receives an internally propagated configuration overwrites its local configuration with the new parameter values. When an auto-upstream port (besides the configuration source) receives and overwrites its configuration with internally propagated information, one of the following actions is taken:

• If the peer configuration received is compatible with the internally propagated port configuration, the link with the DCBx peer is enabled.
• If the received peer configuration is not compatible with the currently configured port configuration, the link with the DCBx peer port is disabled and a syslog message for an incompatible configuration is generated. The network administrator must then reconfigure the peer device so that it advertises a compatible DCB configuration.
  • The configuration received from a DCBx peer or from an internally propagated configuration is not stored in the switch’s running configuration.
  • On a DCBx port in an auto-upstream role, the PFC and application priority TLVs are enabled. ETS recommend TLVs are disabled and ETS configuration TLVs are enabled.

Auto-downstream

The port advertises its own configuration to DCBx peers but is not willing to receive remote peer configuration. The port always accepts internally propagated configurations from a configuration source. An auto-downstream port that receives an internally propagated configuration overwrites its local configuration with the new parameter values.

When an auto-downstream port receives and overwrites its configuration with internally propagated information, one of the following actions is taken:

• If the peer configuration received is compatible with the internally propagated port configuration, the link with the DCBx peer is enabled.
• If the received peer configuration is not compatible with the currently configured port configuration, the link with the DCBx peer port is disabled and a syslog message for an incompatible configuration is generated. The network administrator must then reconfigure the peer device so that it advertises a compatible DCB configuration.
  • The internally propagated configuration is not stored in the switch's running configuration.
  • On a DCBx port in an auto-downstream role, all PFC, application priority, ETS recommend, and ETS configuration TLVs are enabled.

Configuration source

The port is configured to serve as a source of configuration information on the switch. Peer DCB configurations received on the port are propagated to other DCBx auto-configured ports. If the peer configuration is compatible with a port configuration, DCBx is enabled on the port.

On a configuration-source port, the link with a DCBx peer is enabled when the port receives a DCB configuration that can be internally propagated to other auto-configured ports. The configuration received from a DCBx peer is not stored in the switch’s running configuration. On a DCBx port that is the configuration source, all PFC and application priority TLVs are enabled. ETS recommend TLVs are disabled and ETS configuration TLVs are enabled.

Manual

The port is configured to operate only with administrator-configured settings and does not auto-configure with DCB settings received from a DCBx peer or from an internally propagated configuration from the configuration source. If you enable DCBx, ports in Manual mode advertise their configurations to peer devices but do not accept or propagate internal or external configurations. Unlike other user-configured ports, the configuration of DCBx ports in Manual mode is saved in the running configuration.

On a DCBx port in a manual role, all PFC, application priority, ETS recommend, and ETS configuration TLVs are enabled.

When making a configuration change to a DCBx port in a Manual role, Dell EMC Networking recommends shutting down the interface using the shutdown command, change the configuration, then re-activate the interface using the no shutdown command.

The default for the DCBx port role is manual.