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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 23, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2008
Xiaocheng “cora” Chen, Fremont, CA (US);
Raymond C. Tsai, Cupertino, CA (US);
Richard L. Hammons, Hollister, CA (US);
Lalit D. Pathak, San Jose, CA (US);
Sundar Poudyal, Boulder, CO (US);
Daotang Yang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Xiaocheng “Cora” Chen, Fremont, CA (US);
Raymond C. Tsai, Cupertino, CA (US);
Richard L. Hammons, Hollister, CA (US);
Lalit D. Pathak, San Jose, CA (US);
Sundar Poudyal, Boulder, CO (US);
Daotang Yang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Brocade Communications System, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed herein are various aspects of a Fibre Channel (Fibre Channel) fabric having switches that employ Registered State Change Notifications (RSCNs) with enhanced payloads. Two types of RSCN message formats are provided, both including status information about the affected device(s). In one embodiment, a RSCN message format for inter-switch communication provides various information about the affected devices according to one of a plurality of predetermined formats. In another embodiment, a node device RSCN message format provides information about a port state, the identification of the affected port, along with the port and node world wide names and the FC-4 types supported by the node.