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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 02, 2014
Filed:
Jun. 01, 2011
Claude Basso, Raleigh, NC (US);
Anil Pothireddy, Bangalore, IN;
Christoph Raisch, Gerlingen, DE;
Saravanan Sethuraman, Bangalore, IN;
Vibhor K. Srivastava, Sitapur, IN;
Jan-bernd Themann, Tuebingen, DE;
Fabrice J. Verplanken, Lagaude, FR;
Claude Basso, Raleigh, NC (US);
Anil Pothireddy, Bangalore, IN;
Christoph Raisch, Gerlingen, DE;
Saravanan Sethuraman, Bangalore, IN;
Vibhor K. Srivastava, Sitapur, IN;
Jan-Bernd Themann, Tuebingen, DE;
Fabrice J. Verplanken, Lagaude, FR;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Translating between an Ethernet protocol used by a first network component and a Converged Enhanced Ethernet (CEE) protocol used by a second network component, the first and second components coupled through a CEE Converter that translates by: for data flow from the first network component to the second network component: receiving, by the CEE converter, traffic flow definition parameters for a single CEE protocol data flow; calculating, by a credit manager, available buffer space in an outbound frame buffer of the CEE converter for the data flow; communicating, by the credit manager to a CEE credit driver of the first component, the calculated size of the buffer space together with a start sequence number and a flow identifier; and responding, by the CEE credit driver to the CEE converter, with Ethernet frames comprising a private header that includes the flow identifier and a sequence number.