Method and apparatus for tracking buffer availability

Details Method and apparatus for tracking buffer availability Method and apparatus for tracking buffer availability

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H04B 10/20 (2006.01) H04L 12/56 (2006.01) H04L 29/06 (2006.01) H04Q 11/04 (2006.01)

Patent

CA 2182045

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 (432, 434, 436, 438) at the associated F_port prior to forwarding to an interconnected F_port, and a receive credit counter(480), a smart credit counter (482) and a transmit credit counter (142) are employed for tracking the availability of the receive buffers.

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