Patent ID: 8798046
Filing Date: 2014-08-05
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. An apparatus comprising: a filter module operatively coupled to a switching module, the filter module being configured to define a filter to be applied to a Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) frame received from a first port from a plurality of ports instantiated at a network device and to an FCoE frame received from a second port from the plurality of ports, the filter being defined based at least in part on a first logical address assigned to the first port from the plurality of ports, the first logical address being an assigned Media Access Control (MAC) address and based at least in part on (1) a first identifier associated with a switch fabric to which the apparatus is operatively coupled and (2) a second identifier associated with the first port from the plurality of ports and being a Fibre Channel Identifier (FCID) associated with the first port from the plurality of ports, the filter module configured to define the filter such that the switching module sends the FCoE frame received from the second port from the plurality of ports to a Fibre Channel device when a second logical address assigned to the second port from the plurality of ports and that is included in the FCoE frame received from the second port from the plurality of ports matches the first logical address.