Patent ID: 7843931

Claim:
An iSCSI-aware switch, comprising: at least two ports for passing network traffic; a memory for storing a switching table, and information about an iSCSI session received in an iSCSI control information multicast; and a control module for determining whether an incoming signal has control information originated from an iSCSI server to a first iSCSI initiator about a first iSCSI session between the first iSCSI initiator and a first iSCSI target, and multicasting the control information about the first iSCSI session to at least one other switch in an iSCSI-capable network over a path different from a path of iSCSI control packets of the first iSCSI session involving a first iSCSI server, to enable the at least one other switch which is not on the path of the iSCSI control packets can to receive the control information about the first iSCSI session before the first iSCSI session arrives and give priority to the first iSCSI session when it arrives.