Patent ID: 8355345

Claim:
A non-transitory computer readable storage medium embodying a computer program product for establishing a point-to-point connection between a first computing device and a second computing device using Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) protocol, the computer program product having computer readable program code embodied therewith, the computer readable program code configured to: send a FCoE Initialization Protocol (FIP) discovery solicitation to a predefined address in response to a lossless Ethernet connection that connects the first computing device and the second computing device being activated; determine, during a FIP stage, whether the lossless Ethernet connection between the first computing device and the second computing device is a physical point-to-point connection that directly connects the first computing device and the second computing device without an intervening switch comprising a FCoE Forwarder (FCF); and establish a point-to-point connection between the first computing device and the second computing device according to a Fibre Channel (FC) protocol in response to determining that the lossless Ethernet connection between the first computing device and the second computing device is a physical point-to-point connection.