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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 11, 1997
Filed:
Oct. 26, 1995
Applicant:
Inventor:
Dwayne Bennett, Scarborough, CA;
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Co., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J / ; H04Q / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
359139 ; 359117 ; 370232 ; 370236 ;
Abstract
The invention is a method and apparatus for transmitting frames from a plurality of node ports (N.sub.-- ports) to their associated fabric ports (F.sub.-- ports) for forwarding to other interconnected F.sub.-- ports on a Fibre Channel switch in which the transmitted frames are stored in a plurality of receive buffers at the associated F.sub.-- port prior to forwarding to an interconnected F.sub.-- port, and a receive credit counter, a smart credit counter and a transmit credit counter are employed for tracking the availability of the receive buffers.