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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 24, 2010
Filed:
Nov. 19, 2004
Matthew David Bomhoff, Tucson, AZ (US);
Brian James Cagno, Tucson, AZ (US);
Gregg Steven Lucas, Tucson, AZ (US);
Kenny Nian Gan Qiu, Tucson, AZ (US);
Andrew Ellis Seidel, Tucson, AZ (US);
Matthew David Bomhoff, Tucson, AZ (US);
Brian James Cagno, Tucson, AZ (US);
Gregg Steven Lucas, Tucson, AZ (US);
Kenny Nian Gan Qiu, Tucson, AZ (US);
Andrew Ellis Seidel, Tucson, AZ (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for automatically and transparently managing addresses in an arbitrated loop network. An arbitrated loop network switch is programmed with an address map and configured with the necessary modules to monitor an address assignment process and associate soft assigned addresses claimed during the address arbitration process with physical slot addresses. In one embodiment, the address fields of packets addressing a specific physical slot are changed (in route) to the soft address assigned during the address arbitration process. The entire process may be transparent to the rest of the network and to users. The present invention facilitates maintaining a physically ordered addressing scheme despite any soft addressing that occurs during loop initialization.