A METHOD FOR INTERFACING A FIBRE CHANNEL NETWORK WITH AN ETHERNET BASED NETWORK,申请号US20080989336-传众专利搜索

A METHOD FOR INTERFACING A FIBRE CHANNEL NETWORK WITH AN ETHERNET BASED NETWORK

申请公布号：US2011044344(A1)

申请号：US20080989336

申请日期：2008.05.08

申请公布日期：2011.02.24

发明人：HUDSON CHARLES L.;KRAMER ALEXANDER;ARORA NEERAJ

分类号：H04L12/28

主分类号：H04L12/28

摘要：A system and method are provided for interfacing a Fibre Channel network to an Ethernet based network. The method includes the operation of establishing a connection between a Fibre Channel device and an NPIV interface in an Ethernet interconnect module (210). Another operation is processing a fabric login from a server on the Ethernet based network, along with a server identifier that is sent to the Fibre Channel device (220). Acknowledgement frames for fabric login from the Fibre Channel device can be examined in order to identify the N_Port ID of the server (230). In another operation, the server's MAC address can be retrieved from a table using the N_Port ID (240). Then an Ethernet packet can be sent to the server using the server MAC address (250). The Ethernet packet contains a Fabric Provided MAC Address used to enable the server to communicate with the Fibre Channel device.