Method and System for Infiniband Over Ethernet by Mapping an Ethernet Media Access Control (MAC) Address to an Infiniband Local Identifier (LID)

摘要

A method of providing a converged InfiniBand over Ethernet (IBOE) network. An IBOE switch receives a data packet. If the data packet is received by the IBOE switch from the InfiniBand network, a translation utility generates an Ethernet media access control (MAC) address corresponding to an InfiniBand Local Identifier (LID) of said data packet. The translation utility generates an Ethernet packet and encapsulates an InfiniBand link layer packet before sending the packet. If the data packet is received by the IBOE switch from the Ethernet network, the translation utility removes the Ethernet header from the packet and looks up a LID corresponding to the MAC address. The translation utility calculates an outbound port number and sends the packet.