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

Claim 7:
8. A system comprising:
a first network circuit to add an additional interpacket gap between transmission packets; and
a media access control security (MACsec) circuit coupled with the first network circuit, wherein the MACsec circuit comprises:
an input interface to receive the transmission packets from the first network circuit;
an output interface to send outgoing packets to a second network circuit;
MACsec circuitry coupled between the input interface and the output interface; and
bypass flow-control (FC) circuitry coupled between the input interface and the output interface, wherein the bypass FC circuitry is to detect multiple FC packets interspersed among the transmission packets and to pass the multiple FC packets to the output interface, and wherein the multiple FC packets are to cause end-to-end flow control directly between the first network circuit and the second network circuit.