Method and apparatus for an adapter in a network device to discover its adapter name in a network system

摘要

A network system supports multiple network communication protocols. In one embodiment, network device driver software provides a Fibre Channel over Ethernet communication capability and methodology. Device driver software manages a Fibre Channel to Ethernet and Ethernet to Fibre Channel address translation in real time for data packet communications in the network system. Different embodiments of the disclosed network system include multiple name servers and network device driver software that together provide multiple adapter name discovery methodologies. In one embodiment, the adapter name discovery methodologies include port name discovery and adapter attributes discovery.