Patent ID: 7586950

Claim:
A method comprising: generating a remote management command at a first network device, wherein said remote management command is configured to manage a second network device, and said first and second network device are coupled to one another by a frame based network; receiving, by said first network device, data having a destination on a remote network coupled to the second network device, said data received from a local network coupled to the first network device; generating a first and a second universal transport frame by said first network device, wherein said first and second universal transport frames comprise said data having said destination on said remote network, and said remote management command is selectively included in a selected one of the first and second universal transport frames and space for the remote management command is only provided in the selected universal transport frame; transmitting said first and second universal transport frames over said frame based network from said first network device to said second network device, and responding to an interrupt signal, if a received remote management command is received at said first network device.