Patent ID: 7564869

Claim:
A method of transforming Fibre Channel (“FC”) frames for transport on an Ethernet, the method comprising: receiving an FC frame; mapping destination contents of a destination FC ID field of the FC frame to a first portion of a destination MAC field of an Ethernet frame; mapping source contents of a source FC ID field of the FC frame to a second portion of a source MAC field of the Ethernet frame; converting illegal symbols of the FC frame to legal symbols; inserting the legal symbols into a selected field of the Ethernet frame; mapping payload contents of an FC frame payload to a payload field of the Ethernet frame; assigning an Organization Unique Identifier (“OUI”) code to the Ethernet frame, the OUI indicating that the frame is a Fibre Channel over Ethernet frame; inserting the OUI code in organization ID fields of the source MAC field and the destination MAC field of the Ethernet frame; and transmitting the Ethernet frame on the Ethernet.