Systems and methods for stacking fibre channel switches with fibre channel over ethernet stacking links

A method of forwarding Fibre Channel packets, the method comprising:

• receiving, on a first port of a first switch, a Fibre Channel packet from a Fibre Channel device;
• encapsulating, by the first switch, the Fibre Channel packet by adding a Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) header, an Ethernet header, and a stacking header to the Fibre Channel packet;
• and
• forwarding, using a second port of the first switch, the encapsulated packet toward a second switch;
• wherein the first switch and the second switch are in a first Fibre Channel domain.

An information handling system comprising:

• a first switch comprising a first port and a second port;
• and
• a second switch comprising a third port and a fourth port, the first switch and the second switch being in a first Fibre Channel domain;
• wherein the first switch is configured to:
• receive, on the first port, a first Fibre Channel packet from a first Fibre Channel device;
• encapsulate the first Fibre Channel packet by adding a Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) header, an Ethernet header, and a stacking header;
• and
• forward, using the second port, the encapsulated packet toward the second switch;
• wherein the second switch is configured to:
• receive, on the third port, the encapsulated packet forwarded by the first switch;
• extract the first Fibre Channel packet from the encapsulated packet;
• and
• forward, using the fourth port, the first Fibre Channel packet toward a second Fibre Channel device.