Patent ID: 11956160
Assignee: MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 17:
18. A method comprising:
receiving, by an input interface of a media access control security (MACsec) device, incoming packets received from a first network device;
parsing, by the MACsec device, the incoming packets to identify types of the incoming packets;
detecting, by bypass flow control (FC) circuitry coupled between the input interface and an output interface of the MACsec device, multiple FC packets interspersed within the incoming packets; and
passing, by the bypass FC circuitry, the multiple FC packets to the output interface of the MACsec device, wherein the multiple FC packets cause to end-to-end flow control directly between the first network device and a second network device that is coupled with the output interface.