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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 31, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 17, 2008
Robert Norman Snively, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Sandra Snively, Legal Representative, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Ezio Valdevit, Redwood City, CA (US);
Suresh Vobbilisetty, San Jose, CA (US);
John Hufferd, San Jose, CA (US);
Glenn Charles Wenig, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Boris Zemlyak, San Jose, CA (US);
Anoop Ghanwani, Rocklin, CA (US);
Robert Norman Snively, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Sandra Snively, legal representative, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Ezio Valdevit, Redwood City, CA (US);
Suresh Vobbilisetty, San Jose, CA (US);
John Hufferd, San Jose, CA (US);
Glenn Charles Wenig, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Boris Zemlyak, San Jose, CA (US);
Anoop Ghanwani, Rocklin, CA (US);
Brocade Communications Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of initializing a Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) link between a Fiber Channel over Ethernet node (ENode) and Fiber Channel Forwarders (FCFs) in a network by discovering the presence of FCFs available to the ENode and other FCFs, assigning second MAC addresses to the ENode corresponding to each available FCF, and converting from a management and initialization process using the first MAC address to normal Fiber Channel operation using the second MAC addresses. The implementations described herein may additionally distinguish management and initialization processes from normal Fiber Channel operation using separate Ethertypes.