EXTENDING SWITCH FABRIC PROCESSING TO NETWORK INTERFACE CARDS

    公开(公告)号:US20230017692A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-01-19

    申请号:US17809452

    申请日:2022-06-28

    Abstract: An example system comprises a plurality of servers comprising respective network interface cards (NICs) connected by physical links in a physical topology, wherein each NIC of the plurality of NICs comprises an embedded switch and a processing unit coupled to the embedded switch; and an edge services controller configured to program the processing unit of a network interface card of the plurality of network interface cards to: receive, at a first network interface of the NIC, a data packet from a physical device; based on the data packet being received at the first network interface, modify the data packet to generate a modified data packet; and output the modified data packet to the physical device via a second network interface of the NIC.

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