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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 25, 2007
Filed:
May. 06, 2003
David Brewer, Lake Forest, CA (US);
Karl Maxwell Henson, Costa Mesa, CA (US);
Hossein Hashemi, Costa Mesa, CA (US);
Gregory John Scherer, Costa Mesa, CA (US);
David Bradley Baldwin, Costa Mesa, CA (US);
David Brewer, Lake Forest, CA (US);
Karl Maxwell Henson, Costa Mesa, CA (US);
Hossein Hashemi, Costa Mesa, CA (US);
Gregory John Scherer, Costa Mesa, CA (US);
David Bradley Baldwin, Costa Mesa, CA (US);
Emulex Design & Manufacturing Corporation, Costa Mesa, CA (US);
Abstract
A loop network hub including a hub port with a loop initialization insertion mechanism. The loop initialization insertion mechanism causes a hub port which detects a new node port connection to automatically begin generating loop initialization data. A hub port continues to generate loop initialization data until that hub port receives a loop initialization sequence. The loop initialization data propagates around the loop of the hub, halting ordinary processing. In this way, the entire loop is cleared. Upon receiving a loop initialization sequence, the hub port originating the loop initialization data inserts the new node port into the loop. At this point, loop initialization begins and each node port in the loop network obtains a unique loop network address.