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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 2013
Filed:
May. 08, 2008
Charles L. Hudson, Round Rock, TX (US);
Alexander Kramer, Frisco, TX (US);
Neeraj Arora, Round Rock, TX (US);
Charles L. Hudson, Round Rock, TX (US);
Alexander Kramer, Frisco, TX (US);
Neeraj Arora, Round Rock, TX (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A system and method are provided for interfacing a Fiber Channel network to an Ethernet based network. The method includes the operation of establishing a connection between a Fiber Channel device and an NPIV interface in an Ethernet interconnect module (). Another operation is processing a fabric login from a server on the Ethernet based network, along with a server identifier that is sent to the Fiber Channel device (). Acknowledgement frames for fabric login from the Fiber Channel device can be examined in order to identify the N_Port ID of the server (). In another operation, the server's MAC address can be retrieved from a table using the N_Port ID (). Then an Ethernet packet can be sent to the server using the server MAC address (). The Ethernet packet contains a Fabric Provided MAC Address used to enable the server to communicate with the Fiber Channel device.