公开(公告)号：WO9741674A3

公开(公告)日：1998-02-05

申请号：PCT/US9707271

申请日：1997-04-29

Applicant: 3COM CORP

Inventor： BINDER JAMES STUART ,  SIDENBLAD PAUL JAMES ,  BAKER ROMAN GABRIEL ,  CONNERY GLENN WILLIAM

IPC: H04L12/54 ,  H04L12/801 ,  H04L12/851 ,  H04L12/863 ,  H04L29/06

CPC classification number: H04L29/06 ,  H04L47/10 ,  H04L47/2433 ,  H04L47/50 ,  H04L47/6255 ,  H04L47/6285 ,  H04L69/22

Abstract: A network adaptor driver includes an algorithm for determining special handling of packets by examining socket or port indications for the packets and a means for setting a special handling field in the header of outgoing packets. Specific embodiments include a table for connections that include packets without socket indications, a transmit FIFO list for determining whether a transmit FIFO is full, and a low priority receive queue. A computer readable media allowing a computer to practice the method of the invention is disclosed.