Sanitizing fiber channel frames
View Patent ↗A system and method of sanitizing a data frame from a node in a network loop includes receiving the data frame from the node, and, when the data frame includes invalid data, replacing a first word of the invalid data with a frame termination primitive and subsequent words of the invalid data with buffer data.
1. A method of sanitizing a data frame from a first node in a network loop, comprising:
receiving the data frame from a first node; and
transmitting the data frame to a second node downstream from the first node in the network loop;
when the received data frame comprises invalid data, before transmitting the data frame to the second node, replacing a first word of the invalid data with a frame termination primitive and all subsequent words of the data of the data frame with data that is not related to the data of the data frame.
2. A system for sanitizing a data frame from a first node in a network loop, comprising:
means for receiving the data frame comprising invalid data from the first node;
means for replacing a first word of the invalid data with a frame termination primitive and all subsequent data words of the data frame with data that is not related to the data of the data frame; and
means for transmitting the data frame to a second node downstream from the first node.