Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.

Silverback Systems Inc.

Boris Zemlyak

Suresh Vobbilisetty

Anoop Ghanwani

John Lewis Hufferd

Ezio Valdevit

Somesh Gupta

Glenn Wenig

Robert Norman Snively

Tom Herbert

Sandra Snively, Legal Representative

A method of initializing a Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) link between a Fiber Channel over Ethernet node (ENode) and Fiber Channel Forwarders (FCFs) in a network by discovering the presence of FCFs available to the ENode and other FCFs, assigning second MAC addresses to the ENode corresponding to each available FCF, and converting from a management and initialization process using the first MAC address to normal Fiber Channel operation using the second MAC addresses. The implementations described herein may additionally distinguish management and initialization processes from normal Fiber Channel operation using separate Ethertypes.

Address assignment in Fibre Channel over Ethernet environments

A network interface card comprising an upper layer protocol (ULP) handler, a TCP handler capable of interfacing with said ULP handler and, a link handler. The network interface card is adapted to take over and perform at least one session layer function of a host computer connected to a network.

Architecture and API for of transport and upper layer protocol processing acceleration

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San Jose, CA, United States of America

Boris Zemlyak