Patent ID: 9137175
Filing Date: 2015-09-15
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: requesting one or more Ethernet addresses from an Internet Storage Name Service (iSNS) server; receiving a seed value from the iSNS server; generating one or more Fibre Channel addresses using the seed value provided by the iSNS server; saving the one or more Fibre Channel addresses and the one or more Ethernet addresses in a table; sending a Fibre Channel address, from the one or more Fibre Channel addresses in the table, to a Host Bus Adapter (HBA) module; generating Fibre Channel communications by the HBA module of a networking apparatus, the Fibre Channel communications comprising communications directed to a Fibre Channel fabric service and a communication addressed to the Fibre Channel address; emulating the Fibre Channel fabric service to the HBA module, the emulating comprising translating the Fibre Channel communications directed to the Fibre Channel fabric service to communications directed to an Ethernet service; encapsulating the communication addressed to the Fibre Channel address into one or more Ethernet frames; obtaining an Ethernet address of a device from the one or more Ethernet addresses in the table, based on the Fibre Channel address; addressing the one or more Ethernet frames to the Ethernet address; and sending the communications directed to the Ethernet Service and the one or more Ethernet frames over an Ethernet network.