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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 05, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2010
Ronak Shah, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Amit Shukla, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ronak Shah, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Amit Shukla, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, an apparatus can include a filter module operatively coupled to a switching module. The filter module can be configured to define a filter to be applied to a Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) frame received from any port from multiple ports instantiated at a network device. The filter can be defined based at least in part on a first logical address associated with a first port from the multiple ports. The first logical address can be based at least in part on (1) a first identifier associated with a switch fabric to which the apparatus is operatively coupled and (2) a second identifier associated with a first port from the multiple ports. The filter module can be configured to define the filter such that a switching module sends the FCoE frame to a Fiber Channel device when a second logical address included in the FCoE frame matches the first logical address and the filter module is operatively coupled to the switching module.