Patent ID: 8005966
Filing Date: 2011-08-23
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A switching system comprising a plurality of line cards coupled to a switching fabric, said line cards comprising a first processor coupled to a network comprising a transport layer and a network layer wherein the transport layer and the network layer are TCP/IP only, said first processor for terminating IP-based storage traffic carrying first data sent to the line cards and originating IP-based storage traffic from the line cards in a plurality of IP-based storage sessions comprising one or more TCP/IP sessions, said first processor comprising a session memory for storing TCP/IP session information for the one or more TCP/IP sessions; and a storage session database for storing IP-based storage session information for the plurality of IP-based storage sessions, wherein said first processor is coupled to a second processor, wherein said first processor executes a command received from the second processor, wherein the first processor determines an address of the second processor from said received command, wherein the first processor interrupts the second processor at the determined address from the received command at completion of the command, wherein the command is associated with one of the IP-based storage sessions.