Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.

Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited

Cisco Technology, Inc.

Li Zhao

Surya Prakash Varanasi

Venkata Pramod Balakavi

Yash V Bansal

Venky Nagapudi

Sathseel Altekar

Kung-Ling Ko

Badrinath Kollu

Chao Zhang

Pushpanathan Chidambaram

Sathish K Gnanasekaran

Lele Zhang

Yajun Xia

Chuanwei Li

A system and method for non-disruptive route change. The method includes receiving a first data transmission frame associated with a first exchange at a switch, transmitting the first data transmission frame through a first route based on a route lookup, determining, by a traffic optimization circuit, an improved second route, determining if the first exchange includes any other data transmission frames, and transmitting a first data transmission frame associated with a second exchange through the second route in response to determining that the first exchange does not include any other data transmission frames.

Non-disruptive route change in fibre channel network

An Ethernet/Fiber Channel network interface device which can be configured by a user to operate on an FC SAN, a CEE network or both. In one embodiment the configuration can be done using jumpers or connections to the pins of a chip, thus allowing a manufacturer to only inventory one device for use with either or both networks. In a second embodiment the configuration can be done in software by setting registers and memory values on the device. This embodiment allows the device to be changed between configurations without removing it from the server or blade. The devices according to the preferred embodiments further reduce power consumption by shutting down portions of the chip not needed based on the configuration of the device.

User selectable multiple protocol network interface device

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Li Zhao