Hitachi Vantara Corporation

Hitachi Data Systems Engineering UK Limited

Andrew Stephen Chittenden

Jonathan Smith

Antonio Robert Carlini

Robert Ian Williams

Chin Fung Lai

Ashwin Payyanadan

The apparatus comprises a plurality of interfaces, each interface having an associated interface ID; and a hardware-side processing device including at least one programmable hardware-implemented chip configured to process request packets, which are received from host computers and relate to access requests to one or more file system managed by the apparatus, and to generate response packets for the processed request packets; wherein, for a request packet which is received from a first host computer, at least one programmable hardware-implemented chip is configured to: determine the client ID being associated with the first host computer, determine the interface ID being associated with the first interface, determine whether the determined client ID and interface ID represent a permitted ID set or a prohibited ID set, and refrain from processing the received request packet if the determined client ID and interface ID represent a prohibited ID set.

Method and an apparatus, and related computer-program products, for managing access request in multi-tenancy environments

An RST reason code is conveyed in a predetermined field of the TCP or IP header for a TCP RST packet in order to indicate the reason for the RST. In this way, an enhanced TCP device that receives the RST packet can access the RST reason code in machine-readable form and, unlike prior art implementations in which ASCII text is carried in the TCP payload to provide a RST reason, without having to process the payload of the TCP packet.

System and method for conveying the reason for TCP reset in machine-readable form

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Reading, United Kingdom

Andrew Stephen Chittenden