摘要:
The present invention provides a method and apparatus for handling address resolution protocol requests for a device having multiple interfaces. The method comprises receiving a message transmitted by a remote device to a host. The message includes a request to provide a value representative of an address associated with the host and the message includes a value representative of an address associated with the remote device. The method further comprises comparing at least a portion of the value representative of the address associated with the remote device to a value stored in an address field on a storage unit and discarding the message in response to determining that at least the portion of the value representative of the address associated with the remote device is substantially equal to the value stored in the address field.
摘要:
The present invention provides a method and apparatus for multicast tunneling for mobile devices. The method comprises receiving a multicast packet directed to a plurality of mobile nodes, the mobile nodes being associated with a home subnet and identifying if any of the plurality of the mobile nodes are coupled to a subnet other than the home subnet, wherein each of the identified mobile nodes has an associated transmission path through which that mobile node can be reached. The method further provides that in response to determining that at least some of the mobile nodes are coupled to the subnet other than the home subnet, determining which of the identified mobile nodes has a common next hop in their associated transmission path and generating a packet including at least a portion of the multicast packet and including in the packet a list of mobile nodes that have the common next hop. The method further provides for transmitting the generated packet to the common next hop.
摘要:
The present invention provides a method and apparatus for waking up client devices. A method comprising determining a first network address associated with a client device and a second network address associated with the client device and transmitting at least a portion of the first network address and the second network address to a remote device while the client device is in sleep mode.
摘要:
A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for reactivating an existing connection to a remote data processing system. A data packet is created using a previously acknowledged sequence number for the connection. The sequence number is used to uniquely number data bytes sent in a connection, such as a TCP connection. With this sequence number, devices and components, such as routers and fire walls will forward the packet to the destination. A special data sequence, such as a MAC address of the remote data processing system repeated a selected number of times, is placed in the data packet. This special data sequence causes the remote data processing system to wake up from a sleep mode when received by the remote data processing system. The data packet is sent to the remote data processing system using the existing connection. The use of a subnet directed broadcast is avoided. Thus, problems associated with routing wake up packets are avoided.
摘要:
Administering acknowledgment messages (‘ACKs’) in the Transmission Control Protocol (“TCP”) that include establishing a TCP connection between a sender and a receiver, receiving by the receiver one or more TCP messages from the sender, and transmitting an ACK from the receiver to the sender only when necessary. Administering ACKs in TCP according to embodiments of the present invention may include measuring by the sender a round trip time for transmission of TCP messages between the sender and the receiver and transmitting to the receiver a data-bearing TCP message once per round trip time. Establishing a TCP connection between a sender and a receiver may include measuring by the receiver a round trip time for transmission of TCP messages between the receiver and the sender. Transmitting an ACK only when necessary may include transmitting an ACK when no message from the sender arrives at the receiver for two round trip times.
摘要:
Data communications through a split connection proxy in a data communications protocol, including receiving in a proxy from a client, asynchronously with respect to any other messages between the client and the proxy, one or more client messages including client message data items including a connection request for a connection between the client and the proxy, destination connection data identifying a destination server, and a message from the client to the destination server; and sending from the proxy to the server, asynchronously with respect to any messages between the client and the proxy and asynchronously with respect to any other messages between the proxy and the server, one or more proxy messages including proxy message data items including a connection request for a connection between the proxy and the destination server and the message from the client to the destination server.
摘要:
A system, apparatus and method of improving network data traffic between interconnected high-speed switches are provided. As is well known, when a packet of data is longer than a path maximum transmission unit (PMTU), the packet will be fragmented. In the case of the invention, the packet is fragmented by a transmitting router connected to a high-speed switch. When a receiving router, which is also connected to an high-speed switch, begins to receive the fragments, it will check to see whether its sub-network may handle data of a substantially longer length than the length of the fragments. If so, the receiving router will collect the fragments, reassemble them into the original packet and transmit the reassembled packet to its destination.
摘要:
A method, system, and program for redirecting client connection requests among sockets providing a same service are provided. An application requests multiple sockets from a kernel. In addition, the application generates a socket call option to bind the sockets to a particular port number and passes a list of the sockets to the kernel, where the list indicates that the sockets will all provide access to server systems providing the same service. In response, the kernel sets up the sockets, bound to the same port, and set to reference one another. Then, when a connection request is received for a first socket in the list with a queue that is full, the kernel redirects the connection request to a second socket in the list with available queue space. Thus, rather than drop the connection request from the first socket when it lacks available queue space, the connection request is redirected to another socket providing access to the same service.
摘要:
In a method comprising an embodiment of the invention, an original application initially binds to a port, and selects or designates a confidential key, which usefully may be a conventional cookie. The invention also sets a socket option, referred to by way of example, as SO_SECURE_REUSEPORT. The confidential key, together with the port number, is then registered with the operating system of a host associated with the port. In order for another application to subsequently bind to the port, such application must provide the operating system with a key that is identical to the confidential key. In one useful embodiment of the invention, a first application binds a socket to a particular port associated with the host. A specified key is registered with the operating system, and a second application is allowed to bind to the particular port only if the second application can furnish the operating system with a key that matches the specified key.
摘要:
DHCP lease negotiation is performed in advance of a specified time when the IP address is needed. The client sends a DHCP discover message with an advance lease option indicating a future time when an IP address is needed. The DHCP server reserves an IP address available at the requested time for the requesting client and sends a DHCP acknowledgment of the reservation. Thereafter, the client sends a DHCP discover message requesting the reserved IP address, and the DHCP server assigns it to the client at the scheduled time.