发明授权
- 专利标题: Intelligent load balancing and failover of network traffic
- 专利标题(中): 网络流量的智能负载平衡和故障转移
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申请号: US11750919申请日: 2007-05-18
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公开(公告)号: US07995465B2公开(公告)日: 2011-08-09
- 发明人: Ayaz Abdulla , Norman K. Chen , Anand Rajagopalan , Ashutosh K. Jha , Hemamalini Manickavasagam , Sameer Nanda
- 申请人: Ayaz Abdulla , Norman K. Chen , Anand Rajagopalan , Ashutosh K. Jha , Hemamalini Manickavasagam , Sameer Nanda
- 申请人地址: US CA Santa Clara
- 专利权人: NVIDIA Corporation
- 当前专利权人: NVIDIA Corporation
- 当前专利权人地址: US CA Santa Clara
- 代理机构: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP
- 主分类号: H04L12/56
- IPC分类号: H04L12/56
摘要:
A hash engine in a network device driver maintains data on the utilization and error rate for each network interface card (“NIC”) within a local computing device. From this data, the hash engine intelligently selects transmit NICs and receive NICs based on various networking parameters provided from a software driver program. Transmit packets sent from the operating system in a local computing device to a remote computing device are intercepted, modified and redirected to transmit NICs selected by the hash engine for transmission to remote computing devices. Similarly, address resolution protocol (“ARP”) response packets sent by the operating system in response to ARP request packets are intercepted, modified and redirected to receive NICs selected by the hash engine for transmission. By selecting receive NICs and transmit NICs in this fashion, the hash engine is able to intelligently load balance transmit and receive traffic in the local computing device, thereby improving overall network performance relative to prior art techniques.