Patent ID: 8559433

Claim:
A method for processing Fibre Channel Fabric Login frames by a Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) device interconnection apparatus (FIA) and a FCoE device interconnection apparatus controller (FIAC), comprising: receiving a Fabric Login (FLOGI) Fibre Channel frame from a Fibre Channel device at the FIA, encapsulating the FLOGI Fibre Channel frame into a FCoE Initialization Protocol (HP) FLOGI frame at the FIA, transmitting from the FIA the FIP FLOGI frame to the FIAC, receiving at the FIAC the FIP FLOGI frame, processing the FIP FLOGI frame, transmitting a FIP Link Service Accept (LS_ACC) frame by the FIAC to the FIA, receiving the FIP LS_ACC frame by the FIA, decapsulating the FIP LS_ACC frame into a Fibre Channel LS_ACC frame at the FIA, and transmitting the Fibre Channel LS_ACC frame back to the Fibre Channel device.