Patent ID: 8774215

Claim:
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon a Fibre Channel Over Ethernet (FCOE) frame data structure for encapsulating a Fibre Channel (FC) frame within an Ethernet frame, the FCOE frame data structure comprising: an Ethernet frame data structure comprising: a FCOE Start Of Frame (SOF) indicator according to a FC SOF indicator in the FC frame; a FCOE End Of Frame (EOF) indicator according to a EOF indicator in the FC frame; an Ethernet payload within the Ethernet frame data structure, the Ethernet payload containing type information extracted from a FC Start Of Frame (SOF) indicator, a FC header, and type information extracted from a FC End Of Frame (EOF) indicator, wherein the FC SOF and EOF indicators are of different types, each type represented by the type information extracted from the FC SOF and EOF indicators; and an Ethernet Media Access Control (MAC) header within the Ethernet frame data structure, the Ethernet MAC header comprising: an Ethernet MAC destination address translated from a FC destination address using an Address Resolution Protocol (ARP), an Ethernet MAC source address translated from a FC source address using the ARP, and an Ethertype value indicating that the Ethernet frame is a FCOE frame.