摘要 |
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 channe l 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 t he table and for each device that responds, flagging the corresponding node nam e for that storage device as FARP compatible, and for each device that does no t 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.
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