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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 20, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 28, 2015
Applicant:
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Inventor:
Claudio DeSanti, Oakland, CA (US);
Assignee:
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/931 (2013.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 29/12 (2006.01); H04L 12/741 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 49/357 (2013.01); H04L 45/74 (2013.01); H04L 49/70 (2013.01); H04L 61/2038 (2013.01); H04L 61/2076 (2013.01); H04L 69/26 (2013.01); H04L 61/6045 (2013.01);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a method includes establishing at a Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) Data-Plane Forwarder (FDF), a connection with a controller in communication with a plurality of FDFs, processing at the FDF, control information received from the controller, and forwarding FCoE frames based on the control information. The FDF communicates with the other FDFs in an FCoE fabric and communicates with the controller through a control connection. An apparatus is also disclosed herein.