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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 11, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 04, 2007
Aaron C. Brown, Austin, TX (US);
Jimmy R. Hill, Austin, TX (US);
Gregory F. Pfister, Austin, TX (US);
Renato J. Recio, Austin, TX (US);
Aaron C. Brown, Austin, TX (US);
Jimmy R. Hill, Austin, TX (US);
Gregory F. Pfister, Austin, TX (US);
Renato J. Recio, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method of providing visibility of Ethernet components to a subnet manager in a converged InfiniBand over Ethernet (IBOE) network. If a port of an IBOE gateway corresponds to one or more InfiniBand devices, the subnet manager sends fabric management packets (FMPs) to discover the InfiniBand network and assigns physical local identifiers (LIDs) to the InfiniBand devices. If a port of the IBOE gateway corresponds to one or more Ethernet devices, the subnet manager sends FMPs to discover the Ethernet network. The subnet manager adds the Ethernet Media Access Control (MAC) addresses of any responding devices to an LID routing table and assigns LIDs to the Ethernet devices. The subnet manager configures one or more virtual Host Channel Adapters (HCAs) corresponding to the one or more Ethernet MAC addresses in the LID routing table.