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Method and apparatus for accelerating receive-modify-send frames in a fibre channel network

  • US 7,620,059 B2
  • Filed: 07/12/2004
  • Issued: 11/17/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/16/2003
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for processing receive-modify-send (“

  • RMS”

    ) frames in a fibre channel network device, comprising;

    receiving a frame in a receive buffer of the network device;

    determining if the received frame is an RMS frame;

    if the received frame is an RMS frame, modifying the RMS frame within the receive buffer and without copying the RMS frame to a transmit buffer; and

    transmitting the modified RMS frame.

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