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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 26, 2014
Filed:
Apr. 08, 2008
Claudio Desanti, Berkeley, CA (US);
Claudio Desanti, Berkeley, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques are provided for performing discovery in a Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) network. An FCoE Node (ENode) discovers the FCoE Forwarders (FCFs) connected to its network segment by transmitting a solicitation message to the multicast MAC address 'All-FCF-MACs'. All FCFs receive packets with this multicast MAC address including the solicitation message that announces the presence of the ENode. Each FCF replies with a unicast advertisement message that provides the ENode with a MAC address of the responding FCF. The ENode builds a list of the FCFs available on its network segment and may then establish a virtual link with one or more of the FCFs through a Fabric Login (FLOGI) exchange.