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HARDWARE-ENFORCED LOOP AND NPIV HARD ZONING FOR FIBRE CHANNEL SWITCH FABRIC

  • US 20080095152A1
  • Filed: 09/20/2007
  • Published: 04/24/2008
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/05/2000
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of hard-zoning protection for loop-level addresses in Fibre Channel switching, comprising:

  • receiving a frame at a port of a Fibre Channel fabric;

    comparing the S_ID of the frame to the native ID of the port, and based on the comparison, routing a valid frame to its destination port;

    at the destination port, comparing the frame'"'"'s S_ID to an inclusion list of sources permitted under the zoning to transmit to the destination port and for loop addresses and N Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) addresses, comparing the zone of the destination and the zone of the source;

    for valid frames, transmitting the frame through the destination port.

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