Broadcom Corporation

Qlogic Corporation

Avago Technologies General IP Pte, Ltd.

Murali Rajagopal

Kan Frankie Fan

Uri El Zur

Scott Sterling McDaniel

Hemal Vinodchandra Shah

Kevin Tran

Jerald K Alston

Bruce Anthony Klemin

Sanjaya Anand

Scott S Mcdaniel

Systems and methods that provide a unified infrastructure over layer-2 networks are provided. A first frame is generated by an end point. The first frame comprises a proxy payload, a proxy association header and a frame header relating to a control proxy element. The first frame is sent over a first network to the control proxy element. A second frame is generated by the control proxy element. The second frame comprises the proxy payload and a proxy header. The first and second frames correspond to different layer-2 protocols. The control proxy element sends the second frame over a second network employing the layer-2 protocol of the second frame.

Unified infrastructure over ethernet

Method and System for processing network information is provided. The system includes a computing system having a processor for executing instructions for an application module that generates an input/output ('I/O') request for transmitting and receiving network information to and from the network device; a storage driver for receiving the I/O request from the application module; a network protocol stack for executing a network protocol layer for processing network related information; and an accelerator module that interfaces with the storage driver and the network protocol stack for accelerating processing of Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI) protocol data units (PDUs).

Method and system for accelerating network packet processing

Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) management profiles, based on the Common Information Model (CIM) protocol, may be utilized to perform access authentication during opaque management data profile operations based on DMTF/CIM Role Based Authorization (RBA) profile and/or Simple Identity Management (SIM) profiles. Instances of CIM_Identity class may be utilized to enable validation of ownership and/or access rights, via instances of CIM_Role class and/or instances of CIM_Privilege class for a plurality of common users and/or applications. Quota related operations may be performed via 'QuotaAffectsElement' associations between instances of CIM_Identity class and instances of the CIM_OpaqueManagementDataService class. The 'QuotaAffectsElement' association may comprise &#x201c;AllocationQuota&#x201d; and/or &#x201c;AllocatedBytes&#x201d; properties to enable tracking and/or validating of quota related information within the opaque management data profile.

Method and system for modeling options for opaque management data for a user and/or an owner

Systems and methods that provide a unified infrastructure over Ethernet are provided. In one embodiment, a method of communicating between an Ethernet-based system and a non-Ethernet-based network may include, for example, one or more of the following: generating an Ethernet frame that comprises a proxy payload, a proxy association header and an Ethernet header, the Ethernet header relating to a control proxy element; sending the Ethernet frame over an Ethernet-based network to the control proxy element; generating a non-Ethernet frame that comprises the proxy payload and a proxy header; and sending the non-Ethernet frame over a non-Ethernet-based network.

Certain aspects of a method for iSCSI boot may include loading boot BIOS code from a host bus adapter or a network interface controller (NIC) by an iSCSI client device. A connection may be established to an iSCSI target by the iSCSI client device after loading the boot BIOS code. The boot BIOS code may be chained to at least one interrupt handler over iSCSI protocol. An operating system may be remotely booted from the iSCSI target by the iSCSI client device based on chaining the interrupt handler. An Internet protocol (IP) address and/or location of the iSCSI target may be received. At least one iSCSI connection may be initiated to the iSCSI target based on chaining at least one interrupt handler. The iSCSI target may be booted in real mode if at least one master boot record is located in the memory.

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Irvine, CA, United States of America

Murali Rajagopal