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| 20080267073 | Method and System for Ethernet Congestion Management - Certain aspects of a method and system for Ethernet congestion management may include transmitting one or more data packets in a network flow from a source node to a destination node. The source node may be enabled to receive one or more congestion notification frames based on detecting congestion at one or more switches in the network flow. A probe packet comprising a departure timestamp, Ts, may be transmitted from the source node to the destination node based on receiving one or more congestion notification frames. The arrival rate, Ra, of one or more data packets at the destination node may be calculated based on an arrival timestamp, Ta, inserted into the probe packet at the destination node. A rate limiter at the source node may be enabled to limit a rate of one or more data packets based on the calculated arrival rate, Ra. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20080320162 | Method and System for Minimum Frame Size Support for a Communication Protocol Encapsulated Over Ethernet - Certain aspects of a method and system for minimum frame size support for a communication protocol encapsulated over Ethernet may include an encapsulated protocol over Ethernet (EPoE) frame comprising a start of padding (SP) field. In the EPoE frame, a size of an encapsulated protocol frame that is less than a size of an Ethernet frame may be adjusted by insertion of one or more padding bits so that the size of the encapsulated protocol frame is equal to the size of the Ethernet frame. The SP field may indicate a starting location of the insertion of one or more padding bits within the EPoE frame. The SP field comprises an offset value that may be relative to a location of a word in which the SP field is located or is relative to a location of a word corresponding to a fixed offset from a start of the encapsulated protocol frame. | 12-25-2008 |
| 20090097391 | Method And System For Monitoring And Training Ethernet Channels To Support Energy Efficient Ethernet Networks - An Ethernet link may comprise a plurality of active and/or silent channels. Training of one or more link partners for one or more silent channels may be triggered based on monitoring training parameters for an active channel. The link partners may be trained for the silent channels and link partners corresponding to the silent channels may be configured according to the training. Training parameters for an active channel may be compared to a threshold or relative change value. The threshold or relative change value may be fixed, may be based on measurement results and/or may be programmable. The link partners may be configured for silent channels for an echo canceller, a far-end crosstalk canceller and/or a near-end crosstalk canceller. The silent channels may be trained based on transmitting a pulse or LDPC frame via the silent channels. | 04-16-2009 |
| 20090097392 | Method And System For Monitoring Activity Of A Remote Link Partner To Trigger Training Of Ethernet Channels To Support Energy Efficient Ethernet Networks - It may be determined via monitoring whether a first link partner and/or a second link partner coupled via an Ethernet link has trained or refreshed circuitry and/or has updated at least one parameter. Based on the determination, a corresponding link partner may be trained, refreshed and/or updated. One or more of an echo canceller, a far-end crosstalk canceller and a near-end crosstalk canceller for one or more channels may be configured based on the training, refreshing and/or updating. One or more channels may be silent and/or one or more may be active. Link partners may communicate via one or more of in-band signaling, out-of-band signaling to determine which link partner may monitor and/or which may control or initiate operation. The controlling link partner may be assigned a master mode of operation. Training, refreshing and/or updating for the monitoring link partner may be based on a timer. | 04-16-2009 |
| 20090245791 | Method and System for Fibre Channel and Ethernet Interworking - Certain aspects of a method and system for Fibre Channel and Ethernet interworking may include receiving by a central processing unit (CPU), one or more requests for discovery of one or more Fibre Channel (FC) switches based on a Fibre Channel initialization protocol (FIP). The CPU may be operable to facilitate, via a network switch, a proxy login into the one or more FC switches based on the FIP for one or more servers. The one or more servers may be operable to directly communicate and/or receive packets to/from the FC switches via the network switch. The network switch may be operable to determine a destination address of one or more servers based on the facilitated proxy login by the CPU if the one or more servers utilize fabric provided MAC addresses (FPMA) or utilize a MAC address table if the one or more servers utilize server provided MAC addresses (SPMA). | 10-01-2009 |
| 20100329108 | Method And System For Jitter And Frame Balance And/Or Rebalance For EEE Refresh Cycles - Ethernet network link partners may be configured for operation in a low power mode. The link partners may generate new frames and/or signals and/or may modify characteristics of existing frames and/or signals to be communicated via one or more channels of an Ethernet link during the low power mode. The new and/or modified frames and/or signals may be utilized as refresh frames and/or signals to control communication during low power mode and/or to enable refresh and/or synchronization of the link partners. The new and/or modified frames and/or signals may be generated and/or modified based on a desired frequency distribution and/or spectral density. New and/or modified frames and/or signals may comprise jitter, random and/or pseudo random bit patterns and/or varied bit patterns and/or energy levels. Data packets and/or active idle symbols may be forced during low power mode to mitigate undesired periodic energy. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20110032944 | Method and System for Switching in a Virtualized Platform - A local manager in a local networking domain may configure a plurality of logical switches by combining switching functions available in network devices and/or network switches in the local networking domain. The configuration may utilize vertical and/or horizontal combinations of the switching functions. The switching functions may comprise network switch-based switching functions, and/or hypervisor-level switching functions and/or network adapter-level switching functions available in network devices which may be configured as virtualized platforms. The local manager may provide interfacing services to enable exposing configured logical switches. The interfacing services may comprise an internal interface, which may be utilized, via the local manager, to control the switching functions corresponding to logical switches and/or to route messages sent to and/or from the logical switches. The interfacing services may also comprise an external interface, which may be used by external entities, such as remote management entities, to manage and/or interact with configured logical switches. | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110035498 | Method and System for Managing Network Power Policy and Configuration of Data Center Bridging - Certain aspects of a method and system for managing network power policy and configuration of data center bridging may include a network domain that comprises a single logical point of management (LPM) that coordinates operation of one or more devices, such as network interface controllers (NICs), switches, and/or servers in the network domain: The single LPM may be operable to manage one or both of a network power policy and/or a data center bridging (DCB) configuration policy for the network domain. | 02-10-2011 |
