Patent ID: 9137100
Filing Date: 2015-09-15
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for managing a distributed Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) fabric configured to encapsulate Fibre Channel frames in Ethernet frames, the method comprising: instantiating a first switch link between a controlling FCoE forwarder (cFCF) of the distributed FCoE fabric and a first FCoE data-plane forwarder (FDF), wherein the distributed FCoE fabric further comprises a set of FDFs; receiving, from the first FDF, a first discovery advertisement message that contains a fabric name field for identifying the distributed FCoE fabric, wherein the fabric name field comprises a first value; responsive to determining the first FDF is no longer part of the distributed FCoE fabric based on the first value of the fabric name field, de-instantiating the first switch link between the cFCF and the first FDF; and instantiating a second switch link between the cFCF and the first FDF.