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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 12, 2007
Filed:
Sep. 07, 2001
Norman Chou, San Jose, CA (US);
Olivier Cremel, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Richard Schober, Cupertino, CA (US);
Ian Colloff, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Norman Chou, San Jose, CA (US);
Olivier Cremel, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Richard Schober, Cupertino, CA (US);
Ian Colloff, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Palau Acquisition Corporation (Delaware), Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and management port for an indirect loop protocol associated with an interconnect device. In one embodiment, a method to handle a request sent to an interconnect device includes receiving the request at a destination switch from a host network adapter; generating a response to the request in the destination switch; and returning the response to the host network adapter, wherein the destination switch includes a management port for addressing the interconnect device that implements an indirect loop protocol.