Patent ID: 9106579
Filing Date: 2015-08-11
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for assigning Fibre Channel Domain identifiers with an Internet Storage Name Service (iSNS) Server, a Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) device, a FCoE device interconnection apparatus controller (FIAC), and a FCoE device interconnection apparatus (FIA), comprising: sending a Request Domain Identifier iSNS protocol message from a FIAC to a iSNS Server, receiving a Request Domain Identifier iSNS protocol message reply including a Domain Identifier from the iSNS Server by the FIAC, transmitting a FIP Discovery Advertisement (DISC ADV) multicast frame from the FIAC, receiving the DISC ADV multicast frame at the FCoE device, transmitting a Fibre Channel Initialization Protocol (FIP) Fabric Login (FLOGI) frame from the FCoE device to the FIA using the MAC address of the FIAC from the received FIP DISC ADV multicast frame, receiving a FIP FLOGI frame from the FCoE device by a FIA, forwarding the FIP FLOGI frame from the FIA to the FIAC, assigning at the FIAC a new Fibre Channel address identifier, using the Domain Identifier assigned from the Request Domain Identifier response message, transmitting at the FIAC a FIP Link Service Accept (LS_ACC) response to the FIP FLOGI comprising the newly assigned Fibre Channel address identifier at the FIAC, and receiving at the FIA the FIP LS_ACC and forwarding the FIP LS_ACC frame to the FCoE device that transmitted the FIP FLOGI frame.