Patent ID: 7881213

Claim:
A system for interconnecting a Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop having one or more attached Private Loops, the system comprising: a first port, the first port configured to be coupled to a Fibre Channel Arbitrated loop, a private loop device attached to the first port via the Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop, a processor, a second port, the second port configured to be coupled to the processor, each port implementing a loop port state machine, a connectivity apparatus including at least the first port and the second port and coupling the processor to the first port, whereby the frames generated from the processor include Port Login (PLOGI) frames, and whereby the Fibre Channel frames are transferred between the processor coupled to the second port and the attached private loop device on the first port through the connectivity apparatus, and whereby the processor operates on one or more of the Fibre Channel frames and the Fibre Channel frames are transferred out of the second port.