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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 22, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 26, 2012
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Silvano Gai, Groveland, CA (US);
Claudio DeSanti, Oakland, CA (US);
James Paul Rivers, Saratoga, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
This document discusses, among other things, applying network policy at a network device. In an example embodiment fiber channel hard zoning information may be received that indicates whether a fiber channel frame is permitted to be communicated between two fiber channel ports. Some example embodiments include identifying a media access control addresses associated with the fiber channel ports. An example embodiment may include generating one or more access control entries based on the fiber channel identifications of the fiber channel ports and the zoning information. The access control entries may be distributes to an Ethernet port to be inserted into an existing access control list and used to enforce a zoning policy upon fiber channel over Ethernet frames.