2.2. Native Fibre Channel Drivers and Capabilities

2.2. Native Fibre Channel Drivers and Capabilities

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 ships with the following native fibre channel drivers:

  • lpfc

  • qla2xxx

  • zfcp

  • mptfc

Table 1, “Fibre-Channel API Capabilities” describes the different fibre-channel API capabilities of each native Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 driver. X denotes support for the capability.

lpfc qla2xxx zfcp mptfc
Transport port_id X X X X
Transport node_name X X X X
Transport port_name X X X X
Remote Port dev_loss_tmo X X X X
Remote Port fast_io_fail_tmo X
Host port_id X X X X
Host issue_lip X X
Table 1. Fibre-Channel API Capabilities