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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2002
Filed:
May. 26, 1999
Peter Si-Sheng Wang, Cupertino, CA (US);
Charles Hardin, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
3Com Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A method to dynamically attach, manage, and access a LAN-attached SCSI and netSCSI device to a network. In one embodiment, the present invention recites a method for dynamically attaching, managing, and accessing a netSCSI device coupled to a network. In one step, a broadcast message from the netSCSI device, providing a network address of the netSCSI device, is received at a computer coupled to the network. In another step, the network address of the netSCSI device is mapped to a logical SCSI ID in the computer. With another step, the computer claims ownership of the netSCSI device by transmitting a message of ownership to it and including its own, network address. Finally, communication to the netSCSI device is performed by accessing the address map.