Fabric OS Administrator's Guide v7.0.0 (53-1002148-02, June 2011)

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Buffer credit management
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portState: 2 Offline
Protocol: FC
portPhys: 2 No_Module
portScn: 0
port generation number: 0
portId: 010200
portIfId: 4312003b
portWwn: 20:02:00:05:1e:94:0f:00
portWwn of device(s) connected:
Distance: static (desired = 100 Km)
portSpeed: N8Gbps
LE domain: 0
FC Fastwrite: OFF
Interrupts: 0 Link_failure: 0 Frjt: 0
Unknown: 0 Loss_of_sync: 0 Fbsy: 0
Lli: 0 Loss_of_sig: 3
Proc_rqrd: 5 Protocol_err: 0
Timed_out: 0 Invalid_word: 0
Rx_flushed: 0 Invalid_crc: 0
Tx_unavail: 0 Delim_err: 0
Free_buffer: 0 Address_err: 0
Overrun: 0 Lr_in: 0
Suspended: 0 Lr_out: 0
Parity_err: 0 Ols_in: 0
2_parity_err: 0 Ols_out: 0
CMI_bus_err: 0
Enabling long distance when connecting to TDM devices
Use this procedure when connecting to Time-Division Multiplexing (TDM) devices and your Brocade
switch has QoS and buffer credit recovery enabled.
1. Connect to the switch and log in using an account assigned to the admin role.
2. Disable QoS.
switch:admin> portcfgqos --disable [slot/]port
If you do not disable QoS, after the second or third Link Reset (LR), ARBS display.
3. Disable the credit recovery; credit recovery is not compatible with the IDLE mode. If you do not
disable the credit recovery, it continues to perform a link reset.
switch:admin> portcfgcreditrecovery --disable [slot/]port
4. Configure the port to support long-distance links.
switch:admin> portcfglongdistance [slot/]port,LS,0,100
Buffer credit management
Buffer-to-buffer credit management affects performance over distances; therefore, allocating a
sufficient number of buffer credits for long-distance traffic is essential to performance.