Patent ID: 9288288
Filing Date: 2016-03-15
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A first network switching device comprising: a first Ethernet interface configured to receive a Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) packet that includes a first forwarding address in a first header of the FCoE packet, wherein the first header was not added to the FCoE packet according to a Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links (TRILL) protocol; a first FCoE entity, implemented using one or more integrated circuits, configured to update the first forwarding address included in the first header of the FCoE packet to indicate a first FCoE hop target that is an intermediate destination different than an endpoint destination of the FCoE packet; and a first TRILL entity, implemented using one or more integrated circuits and configured to encapsulate the FCoE packet, having the first header, with a set of one or more second headers according to the TRILL protocol.