| 摘要 |
<p>A method and system in a fibre channel network (10) for discovering the location of a storage device (20, 30) that does not support the fibre channel address resolution protocol FARP using a FARP broadcast and a storage router (18) as a proxy. The storage router (18) determines the node names of each storage device (20, 30) connected to it and save the node names to a look-up table (22). The router then sends a FARP request to each storage device on the table and for each device that responds, flagging the corresponding node name for that storage device as FARP compatible, and for each device that does not respond, flagging the node name as not being FARP compatible. When a FARP broadcast directed to any of the storage devices is received at the router, the router determines if the device is FARP compatible by accessing the look-up table and if the device is not FARP compatible, sends a reply to the FARP broadcast that contains the physical address of the device.</p> |
