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Switch port analyzers

  • US 20050053073A1
  • Filed: 09/03/2003
  • Published: 03/10/2005
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/03/2003
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A network device for use in a Fibre Channel network, the network device configured to do the following:

  • receive a first Fibre Channel packet at an ingress port, a header of the first Fibre Channel packet indicating that the first Fibre Channel packet should be transmitted to a first egress port;

    store a copy of the first Fibre Channel packet in a buffer associated with the ingress port;

    transmit a first replica of the first Fibre Channel packet to the first egress port; and

    transmit a second replica of the first Fibre Channel packet to a second egress port, the second egress port configured to disregard the buffer-to-buffer credit flow control mechanism of the Fibre Channel protocol.

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