System and method of processing management frames

摘要

A system and method of processing management frames implement a switching strategy is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of processing frames received in a network switch comprises identifying control frames from the received frames, wherein a control frame includes instruction messages, and identifying non-control frames that include data traffic. For identified control frames, the control frames are modified by inserting a value for an EtherType within the control frame. The value of the EtherType is not inserted within the non-control frames. The method transmits the frames to a central processing unit (CPU) or other frame processing device within the network switch wherein the CPU is configured to identify the control frames from the non-control frames by the value of the EtherType in the frames.

主权项

1. A method of processing frames received in a network switch, the method comprising:
identifying control frames from the received frames, wherein a control frame includes instruction messages, and identifying non-control frames that include data traffic; for identified control frames, modifying the control frames by inserting a value for an EtherType within the control frame; wherein the value of the EtherType is not inserted within the non-control frames; and transmitting the frames to a central processing unit (CPU) or other frame processing device within the network switch wherein the CPU is configured to identify the control frames from the non-control frames by the value of the EtherType in the frames.