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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 10, 2007
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2002
James Kleinsteiber, San Jose, CA (US);
Richard L. Hammons, Hollister, CA (US);
Shankar Balasubramanian, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
James Kleinsteiber, San Jose, CA (US);
Richard L. Hammons, Hollister, CA (US);
Shankar Balasubramanian, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Brocade Communications Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and system for starting up a network or network device with particular discussion regarding Fibre Channel networks and switches. The method and system relate to powering on or re-starting a plurality of Fibre Channel switching devices, each of those devices having ports. The system generally calls for the selection of a priority threshold that relates to the importance of tasks in fabric formation. Some embodiments of the system exploit a port authentication procedure to separate the execution of tasks higher in priority than the threshold from tasks lower in priority than the threshold.