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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 09, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 18, 2012
Chelsio Communications, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Wael Noureddine, Mountain View, CA (US);
Asgeir Thor Eiriksson, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Chelsio Communications, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A multi-port L2 to L7 switch may be implemented using multi-port switch building blocks such as a multi-port intelligent network interface card (NIC), without necessitating a dedicated switch. It is, for example, possible to build a 16-node switched interconnect from 16 4-port building blocks. Such a multi-port L2 to L7 switch may be used as a storage/compute cluster interconnect, where it replaces one or more external switches. The multi-port switch may utilize routing protocols such as IS-IS and OSPF. It may further support ACL, TCP proxy (L4 switching), iSCSI switching (L7 switching), and multi-function gateway capability, translating between different protocols such as iSCSI/FCoE/FC/SAS, etc.