Inventors:
Robert Norman Snively - Morgan Hill CA, US
Sandra Snively, legal representative - Morgan Hill CA, US
Ezio Valdevit - Redwood City CA, US
Suresh Vobbilisetty - San Jose CA, US
John Hufferd - San Jose CA, US
Glenn Charles Wenig - Pleasanton CA, US
Boris Zemlyak - San Jose CA, US
Anoop Ghanwani - Rocklin CA, US
Assignee:
Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. - San Jose CA
International Classification:
G06F 15/16
US Classification:
709200, 709208, 709228, 709238, 709230, 709224, 370401, 370357, 370474, 370465, 370539
Abstract:
A method of initializing a Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) link between a Fiber Channel over Ethernet node (ENode) and Fiber Channel Forwarders (FCFs) in a network by discovering the presence of FCFs available to the ENode and other FCFs, assigning second MAC addresses to the ENode corresponding to each available FCF, and converting from a management and initialization process using the first MAC address to normal Fiber Channel operation using the second MAC addresses. The implementations described herein may additionally distinguish management and initialization processes from normal Fiber Channel operation using separate Ethertypes.