Apparatus and method for applying network policy at a network device

A system comprising:

• a physical interface including a port to receive a fibre channel over Ethernet frame encoding a source MAC address and a destination MAC address;
• and
• a database including an existing access control list, the physical interface further including an access control list module to:
• receive one or more access control entries generated based on fibre channel zoning information,
• access the database to insert the one or n more access control entries into the existing access control list,
• reference the access control list to determine whether the fibre channel over Ethernet frame is permitted to be received at the destination media access address, and
• regulate a communication of the fibre channel over Ethernet a e based on the access control list.

A machine-readable medium embodying instructions which, when executed by a machine, cause the machine to:

• insert the one or more access control entries into an existing access control list;
• receive a fibre channel over Ethernet frame encoding a source MAC address associated with a source fibre channel identification and a destination MAC address associated with a destination fibre channel identification;
• reference the access control list to determine whether the fibre channel over Ethernet frame is permitted to be received at the destination media access address;
• and
• regulate a communication of the fibre channel over Ethernet frame based on the access control list, the source MAC address and the destination MAC address.