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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 21, 2015
Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Kevin Allen Hughes, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Jason Garth Pearce, Round Rock, TX (US);
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
An FCoE forwarding system includes a non-FCoE-enabled networking device coupled between a source device and an FC device and including a plurality of Lforwarding tables. The non-FCoE-enabled networking device receives a first communication from the source device and determines that the first communication includes a first FCoE frame. The non-FCoE-enabled networking device then retrieves first data from a first standard IP frame location in the first FCoE frame, second data from a second standard IP frame location in the first FCoE frame, and third data from a third standard IP frame location in the first FCoE frame, and uses the first data to reference a first Lforwarding table of the plurality of Lforwarding tables. The first non-FCoE-enabled networking device then uses the first Lforwarding table with the second data and the third data to forward the first FCoE frame on to the FC device.