| 摘要 |
The invention is a method and apparatus for transmitting frames from a plurality of node ports (N-ports) to their associated fabric ports (F-ports) for forwarding to other interconnected F-ports on a Fibre Channel switch in which the transmitted frames are stored in a plurality of receive buffers at the associated F-port prior to forwarding to an interconnected F-port, and a receive credit counter, a smart credit counter and a transmit credit counter are employed for tracking the availability of the receive buffers.
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